English I Honors students went on a field trip to see a production of Hamlet. We spent class time debriefing the play and dealing with a critical issue in the play: Hamlet feigns insanity, but there...
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Twitter, Planning, and Love
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....
Summaries and Tweets in Class
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...
Romeo and Juliet and Anne Frank
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.
Anne Frank and Romeo and Juliet
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...
Two Plays
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...
Finishing Hamlet and Working on Sonnets
In English I, we got back with our partners to discuss which of the five versions of the soliloquy was the best and which was the worst. Then every group got up and had 30 seconds to argue why they...
Play Prep, Finishing a Text, and Examining a Soliloquy
English Studies students (fifth period) had a second (and likely final) day of preparation for their inaugural presentation of The Diary of Anne Frank. We'll likely take a few minutes tomorrow to...
Close Reading and Acting
English Strategies students (fourth period) looked at an early actual entry in Anne Frank's diary. We worked on the skill of monitoring comprehension and fixing up comprehension issues. English...
Hamlet
Today we started talking about Hamlet, a play by William Shakespeare. We read several small passages from the play and matched them up with modern definitions of the lines. Then we read an excerpt...
Anne Frank and a Comparison
English Studies students (fifth period) looked at an actual diary entry from Anne's diary that corresponds with what we've been reading in class. While they compared that with our play text, I had...
Writing Sonnets
In English I we continued working on the sonnets we started yesterday. We struggled a bit with the whole meter issue, but the rubric helped ease our minds a bit. (Additional detail provided by Mr....
