First and fifth periods worked on a specific application of inference: body language. We began with a starter, which we wrote in our Anne Frank diary:

Write about one of the following

• What is body language? If you don’t know what it is, make an educated guess.
• Make a list of things you need to look at when reading body language.

We also covered a bit more about textual elements of nonfiction texts such as headings, subheadings, bullet lists, and quotes.

Second and fourth periods continued working with Shakespeare, both as a conclusion to the poetry unit and in preparation of reading Romeo and Juliet. We practiced the dizzying and hard work of untangling some of Shakespeare’s really long sentences, including the single-sentence “Sonnet 29.”

To reverse-engineer the long sentence, fourth period first engineered the following monstrosity:

When, as the sun sinks into the tired horizon after a day of warming hearts and providing light for the world, both the good and the evil, she, about to collapse from exhaustion, goes home after a very long, stressful day of work as a sanitation engineer, she, barely able to make her way into the house, stumbles into the living room, watches television for two hours and, thinking of her friend who is on vacation in Hawaii, checks her Instagram.

Homework

• First and fifth period: make note of two times before the next class period that you make an inference about someone’s body language.
• Second and fourth periods:
  • paraphrase “Sonnet 29”
  • continue working on poetry project.