First and fifth periods looked at the essential question, “How do textual elements help me understand the organization of a text?” We looked at a text from the PBS website about Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence as part of our unit on “Flowers for Algernon.” We’ll be using the text tomorrow in our return to quoting and citing.

First and fifth period’s work

Second and fourth periods completed Romeo and Juliet. We read it out — the first item in weeks we’ve read an entire scene in class– and discussed the staging and embedded stage directions.

The “corpses” of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris during fourth period

Homework

• First and fifth periods: none.
• Second and fourth periods: reread 5.3, making note of all the places a character expresses some form of fatalism, specifically references to the stars.