Winter Recess (DEC. 24-JAN. 1)

HOMEWORK for YOUR HOLIDAY CHEER!!!

Please log into iXL.com and Myon.com each day for 30 minutes. You all have your username and password. Most of you have the two programs downloaded onto your phone. If you have any problems, please email, text or call me. Also, next month we will be reading the Great Gatsby. 

Please click the two links below and get ahead start on next month!

The Great Gatsby - the movie and  The Great Gatsby - the audiobook

Enjoy your holiday break! You've all worked so hard!

12/21

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Why might Desdemona lie about the handkerchief? What is Emilia’s response?

Option #2: Emilia suspects that more is bothering Othello. Explain: “Tis a monster begot

upon itself, born on itself.” 

Option #3:  What does Cassio do with the handkerchief?  

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12/20

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  When Othello demands “ocular proof,” how does Iago answer?

Option #2: Why might Iago ask Othello to let Desdemona live? 

Option #3:  What story is attached to the handkerchief?

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12/19

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Explain: “Oh Desdemona’s honest. Long live she so and long live you to think

so!”

Option #2: Othello fears Iago understands human nature better than he, and lists three reasons

why Desdemona may be untrue. What are they? 

Option #3:  How does Desdemona lose her handkerchief? What is special about it? What does

Iago plan to do with it? 

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12/18

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  Iago says of Cassio, “men should be what they seem.” What does this mean? Why

is this ironic?

Option #2: Iago builds Othello’s anxiety by delaying responses to direct questions. What four

reasons does he give for not answering? 

Option #3:  Explain: “I’ll see before I doubt, when I doubt prove, and on the proof, there is no

more than this – away at once with love or jealousy.” 

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12/17

Homework: Select and complete 1 of 3 options from below. 

Option #1:  To what is Iago referring when he says, “Ha! I like not that”? What is he doing

when he says, “I cannot think it. That he would steal away so guilty-like seeing

you coming”?

Option #2: When Desdemona pesters Othello to bring Cassio back, Othello asks that she

stop, but says he will deny her nothing. What is her response? Why is she wrong?

Option #3:  Iago asks seemingly innocent questions about Cassio and leads Othello to demand

to know his thoughts. How does Iago manage this?  

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