Twitter, Planning, and Love

by | Nov 16, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students began working on scenes two, three, and four of the first act of Romeo and Juliet. We’re looking at how various characters in the play view love. We’ll finish up tomorrow. English Strategies students began using Twitter...

Summaries and Tweets in Class

by | Nov 13, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English Strategies (fourth period) finished up their 1.2 summaries for Anne Frank and went to the library. We’ll be moving on the scene three Monday. English Studies and English I Honors classes began implementing our latest STEAM unit, which involves using...

Romeo and Juliet and Anne Frank

by | Nov 11, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors continued with the first scene of Romeo and Juliet. English Strategies began working on the summary for act 1 scene 2 of Anne Frank. English Studies finished the summaries. HomeworkEnglish 8: finish the summary and turn it in at the Moodle site....
Anne Frank and Romeo and Juliet

Anne Frank and Romeo and Juliet

by | Nov 10, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors began Romeo and Juliet in earnest today. We looked at the first thirty lines of the poem to see the effect on the play of the simple fact that Shakespeare was writing to two distinct audiences: highly educated upper-class and illiterate lower-class...

Two Plays

by | Nov 9, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students began the beast today, Romeo and Juliet. Thousands upon thousands of lines of Shakespeare: after struggling with sonnets, everyone’s so excited! English 8 students, both Studies and Strategies, continued working on Diary of Anne Frank....