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...
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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
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
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
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
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....
Balcony Monologs and a Short TDQ
Today we worked on the monologs from the balcony (English I) and a TDQ (English 8) asdf
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
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
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
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
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...