First period had a final day of the writing workshop, working on the STAR method of revision.

Fourth period looked at Friar Laurence’s opening lines to see how Shakespeare uses language tricks (also known as literary devices). There’s something in almost every line in the first few lines:

The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,	Personification
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,	Metaphor
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels	Simile
From forth day’s path and Titan‘s fiery wheels:	Classical allusion
Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night’s dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours	Inverted word order
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;	Inverted thought
What is her burying grave that is her womb,
And from her womb children of divers kind	Inverted sentence
We sucking on her natural bosom find,
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain’d from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power:
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

Second and sixth periods completed one more Think Aloud.

Second Period

Sixth Period

It’s getting easier for the students, and the self-assessment showed as much. We’ll begin the play itself tomorrow.

Homework

• First period: continue with writing.
• Second and sixth periods: none.
• Fourth period:
  • complete graphic organizer from today;
  • read 2.4;
  • complete study guide through 2.4.