English I Honors students turned the final moments of Romeo and Juliet to finish the examination of the play for references in any way to fate. We'll be using these copious notes from Friday and...
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Fate Treasure Hunt and Reading the Prompt
English 8 Strategies returned to the ACT-Aspire test today, looking at how to make sure we understand perfectly the prompt for the test. We went over the practice prompt from the last session and...
Fishbowl Fate and Fragments
English I Honors students began the final push toward the end of Romeo and Juliet. We'll be looking at the concept of fate as it develops throughout the play, so today we defined fate using a...
Argument Analysis and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors students completed their Socratic Seminars for the question of who was responsible for Juliet's faked death. Students also turned in their planning sheets for this discussion....
Responsibility and Arugument
Students in English I Honors began a two-day look at who was responsible for Juliet's "death" (i.e., her fake death at the end of act four). We'll be conducting a Socratic Seminar tomorrow to try to...
Finishing the Quarter and Practicing
English I Honors students took a break from Romeo and Juliet to start a series of occasional lessons designed to prepare students for the ACT-Aspire test, which is replacing the PASS test for South...
Socratic Seminar and Graphic Novels
English 8 Strategies students practiced the Socratic Seminar engagement, something that I used to do a lot more often when I taught both writing and literature but that I now do rarely. Since we'll...
Practice and Visions
English I Honors students looked at Juliet's concerns as she contemplates quaffing the vial Friar Laurence gave her. We're working on a graphic-novel-type illustration of the whole scene and will...
Finishing Up
Students from English 8 Strategies had a final day of revision for their earthquake projects. Those students who did not complete the work will have to complete it at home and turn it in Monday....
Three-Hour Delay
We had a three-hour late start due to weather, so things were a little off-kilter as far as the schedule goes. Only three classes met today, and of those, only two had their full time. English I...
Subtext Presentations and Mixed Work
English I Honors students acted their passages from 4.1 and 4.2, presenting afterward the passages with strong subtext and explaining what the subtext was. English 8 Strategies students spent half...
Revision and Subtext in 4.1 and 4.2
English 8 Strategies students had another day of revising their cause/effect earthquake essays. Tomorrow we'll spend a little time working on it, and Thursday we will spend most of the period...
