English I Honors students completed act one scene one of Romeo and Juliet, acting and analyzing the passage for characters’ emotions (for tone of voice in reading/acting) and hidden stage instructions like in Romeo’s  words to Benvolio (key passage italicized):

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!
Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.

English 8 Strategies students returned the computer lab to work on their initial cause/effect paragraphs. Since we have the lab time available and we didn’t complete today’s work, I’ll be changing our lesson plans for tomorrow and heading back into the lab.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • rough draft of full sonnet is due Friday;
  • quiz on tone vocabulary words Friday;
  • paraphrase the following lines: Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.