Claims and Supporting Evidence

Claims and Supporting Evidence

Everyone was working on arguments in one form or another today. English I students were creating claims about the connections between “Decoration Day” and Romeo and Juliet. Students came up with three claims: In both the song and the play there are feuds...
Project and Questions

Project and Questions

English I students worked on the major project for the Romeo and Juliet unit. We first looked at the encounter between Romeo and Tybalt to make some connections clear: We then turned our attention to “Decoration Day,” the song we will all be working on...
Arguments about 3.1

Arguments about 3.1

English I students worked on the big turn in Romeo and Juliet: act 3 scene 1. We worked on summarizing and will return to it later in the unit with other scenes. We also began the mini-unit on active and passive voice. Students will need to take the pre-assessment...
Soliloquy and Vocabulary

Soliloquy and Vocabulary

English I students finished looking at Friar Laurence’s opening soliloquy in 2.3, which is filled with parallelism, inversions, and all the other language tricks Shakespeare uses to be impressive. Students presented their analysis of their division of the...