All classes began with more in-depth practice with the Article of the Week assignment.

Annotations for English 8

Annotations for English I

English I Honors students began applying what we learned yesterday about implied blocking included in Romeo and Juliet. Specifically, we looked at this small passage from Capulet:

Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes
Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.
Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
She, I’ll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?
Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day
That I have worn a visor and could tell
A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear,
Such as would please: ’tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone:
You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.
A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.

Music plays, and they dance

More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,
And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
Ah, sirrah, this unlook’d-for sport comes well.
Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;
For you and I are past our dancing days:
How long is’t now since last yourself and I
Were in a mask?

English 8 students began looking at outlining:

We’ll be using this skill to make an outline of the material we’ll be reading next, which is Sean Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • reread the conversation between Tybalt and Capulet in 5.1, starting with Tybalt’s line, “This, by his voice, should be a Montague” and ending with Tybalt’s “I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall / Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.”
  • look for examples of implied stage directions and find at least two.