First and sixth periods continued working on the poetry unit. We looked at ballads, specifically “Boots of Spanish Leather.” We’ll be finishing it up in the next couple of weeks.

Second and fourth periods began Romeo and Juliet by watching a brief biographic video on Shakespeare. We’ll begin the play proper tomorrow.

Homework

• First and sixth periods: finish ballads (final two lines of seventh stanza and the full four lines of the eighth stanza).
• Second and fourth periods:
• complete the questions from class (you’ll have to do some quick research);
• begin looking at the songs for the soundtrack project (an overview of the project is available here; the wiki for claiming your songs is here);
• begin the lesson on Shakespearean language. (It will be due next Monday, but you might as well get a start on it.)
• Seventh period: none.