English I Honors classes are working towards the Shakespeare unit, which we will begin next week, and we are accomplishing this through Shakespeare’s sonnets as a way to bring the poetry unit to the Romeo and Juliet unit. Today we finished up the complicated “Sonnet 29.”

Afterward, students turned either to “Sonnet 18” or “Sonnet 130” (student-group choice) to examine for characteristics of sonnets after they complete a general analysis of the poem for basic understanding.

English 8 Strategies students continued with yesterday’s work, creating initial drafts we will begin peer editing.

Homework

• English I Honors: complete the poetry project if you haven’t already (see the Moodle site for details).