Wrapping Up Act I

by | Oct 27, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods wrapped up the first act of Anne Frank. We’ll be doing the second act in a much shorter time, finishing by the middle of next week. Fourth period continued its poetry unit, with students teaching today about imagery and the...

Anne Frank

by | Oct 20, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods completed the second scene from Diary of Anne Frank. After reading the scene, we looked closely at how much information can be inferred from a few passages of the dialogue. [nggallery id=16] We’ll be taking a break tomorrow for...

Dialogue

by | Oct 14, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods all worked on dialogue analysis. In a play, all things we learn about characters have to be teased out from the dialogue, so we practiced doing just that: reading closely what characters say to see what we can determine about the...