There are few things as rewarding as writing the update on a Friday after a good week. We’re all tired; we’re all ready to go home; we’ve all earned a bit of rest. For now…

First period switched over from the pure writing-based lessons we’ve been doing to a dual-plan format: Tuesdays and Thursdays will continue to be writing workshop days; Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we’ll be working on Anne Frank.

Second and sixth began looking at the play. As they’ll be acting out a scene each, we took the time to look carefully and the staging instructions embedded in italics text throughout the play. We finished about four or five minutes early in both classes, so I did something I almost never do: I gave them a few minutes to relax. It’s a rarity, though: I hope no one got the idea that it would happen more than two or three times during the year!

Fourth period completed the second act of Romeo and Juliet. We’ll have the quiz on Monday.

Homework

• First period: finish up weekend self-assessment.
• Second and sixth periods: none.
• Fourth period: quiz on Romeo and Juliet act 2.