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Arguments about 3.1

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

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....

2.2 and Argument Analysis

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

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

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

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

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...

More Quote Embedding and the Fight

More Quote Embedding and the Fight

English 8 students continued working on embedding quotes more effectively, creating essentially flow quotes instead of simple dialogue quotes. English I students continued working with 1.1, making...

Flow Quote Practice and the Opening Scene

Flow Quote Practice and the Opening Scene

English 8 students worked on their flow quotes a little more today. This round of practice will be significantly more challenging: not only do I not supply the quotes but also I don't supply the...

Tech-Free Library Day

Tech-Free Library Day

Today, two worlds converged: Tech-Free Tuesday and library day. So all kids went to the library today to get a new book, and all kids worked without Chromebooks -- teachers, too, as much as...

Prologue and Flow Quotes

Prologue and Flow Quotes

English I students began the day with more work on parallel structure, a topic we've been covering mainly through No Red Ink practice. worked on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. We've marked it for...