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• York Mystery Plays


  Dramatization of Bible stories, especially the life and death of Jesus Christ, in churches as tableaux
• Mystery Plays


  • Composed of forty-eight mystery plays or pageants that retell the stories from the creation to the last judgment
• The York Mystery Plays were performed

  Mid-fourteenth century until 1569
• The York Mystery Plays were traditionally staged during the feast day of Corpus Christi
• Active voice


  The doer of the action is the subject of the sentence
• Active voice


  Tells us what a person or a thing does
• Active voice


  subject + verb + object
• Passive voice


  Tells us what is done to someone or something
• Passive voice


  The subject of the sentence receives or experiences the action rather than performing it
• Passive voice


  Occurs when the subject is the recipient of the action
• Passive voice


  object + Verb + by + subject
• Active voice to Passive voice


  The subject should become the object and vice-e-versa while changing a sentence from active to passive voice or reverse
• Reaction paper


  Expresses your views and opinions about issues that you read in the newspapers, hear over the radio, or watch on TV
• Writing a Reaction Paper

  1. Discuss the issue that has caught your attention

  2. Write about your reaction to the issue
• Steps: Writing a Reaction Paper

  1. Understand the point

  2. Read the text right after it has been assigned

  3. Make a note of your early reactions

  4. Select a perspective

  5. Define your thesis

  6. Organize your sections

  7. Write the final version

  8. Check your paper for spelling and grammar
• Writing a Play Review


  A written composition of your views and opinions about a play you recently watched
• Steps: Writing a Play Review

  1. Write a brief summary about the story of the play

  2. Mention the title of the play, the characters, and the setting

  3. Write about what you liked and did not like about the play

  4. Write in the last part of your conclusion about the play
• William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth and it is written as a tragedy.
• A tragedy is a type of drama in which the major character undergoes a morally significant struggle that ends disastrously.
• The two important factors in tragedy are the role of chance or fate and the hero's tragic flaw.
• Samson Agonistes was written by John Milton
• • Will/Would
  • Can
  • Could
  • May
  • Might
  • Must
  • Should
• What is analytical listening?

  a type of listening that allows you to evaluate a message in order to reject or accept it
• What are the types of analytical listening?

  -Subjective

  -Objective

  -Empathic

  -Intersubjective
• What are the stages of analytical listening?

  -Receiving

  -Understanding

  -Evaluating

  -Remembering

  -Responding
• What is the purpose of Tragedy Plays?

  -Aristotle: the purpose of a tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear in the audience.