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Claims and Paraphrases

Claims and Paraphrases

English 8 students worked on a brief practice with identifying strong claims and strong evidence on Kahoot. We'll be evaluating more claims and evidence as we continue through the quarter. English I...

Project Work and Evaluating Claims and Evidence

Project Work and Evaluating Claims and Evidence

English I students worked on their projects for Romeo and Juliet after reading 3.2 and discovering the confusion pronoun/antecedent ambiguity can cause. English 8 students had to maintain a holding...

Claims and Supporting Evidence

Claims and Supporting Evidence

Everyone was working on arguments in one form or another today. English I students were creating claims about the connections between "Decoration Day" and Romeo and Juliet. Students came up with...

Project and Questions

Project and Questions

English I students worked on the major project for the Romeo and Juliet unit. We first looked at the encounter between Romeo and Tybalt to make some connections clear: We then turned our attention...

Arguments about 3.1

Arguments about 3.1

English I students worked on the big turn in Romeo and Juliet: act 3 scene 1. We worked on summarizing and will return to it later in the unit with other scenes. We also began the mini-unit on...

Soliloquy and Vocabulary

Soliloquy and Vocabulary

English I students finished looking at Friar Laurence's opening soliloquy in 2.3, which is filled with parallelism, inversions, and all the other language tricks Shakespeare uses to be impressive....

2.2 and Argument Analysis

2.2 and Argument Analysis

Students in English I looked at several different versions of the balcony scene to see how important visual cues are in Shakespeare and have a few epiphanies from the scenes. One discovery students...

Benchmark, Practice Test, and Vocab

Benchmark, Practice Test, and Vocab

All students took the math benchmark today. As such, we had only thirty minutes per period. English I students worked on the practice test for Romeo and Juliet act I. The test will be on Friday....

Hidden Stage Instructions and TDA Revisions

Hidden Stage Instructions and TDA Revisions

English I students worked on some of the hidden stage instructions in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet : ROMEO […] Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till...

Mab and Final Drafts

Mab and Final Drafts

English 8 students are finishing up their analytic paragraphs on "The Christmas Gift," a chapter from The Circuit. The kids did some amazing work today and made substantial progress on the project....

Assessing and 1.2

Assessing and 1.2

English 8 students assessed some others' work (anonymously, of course) from last week when we were working on quote integrating and making flow quotes: English I students worked on 1.2 from Romeo...