Outlining and Inferred Blocking

Outlining and Inferred Blocking

All classes began with more in-depth practice with the Article of the Week assignment. English I Honors students began applying what we learned yesterday about implied blocking included in Romeo and Juliet. Specifically, we looked at this small passage from Capulet:...

Scene 5 and Summarizing

English 8 students began working on an extended exercise with standard RI-6.1: “Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their development.” Today we reviewed briefly how to create a...

Shaky Start and Friday Work

In English I, we began Shakespeare proper (1.1.1-30) and discovered that it begins with a little surprise, not entirely pleasant — a good lesson in the unpredictability of Shakespeare. English 8 students returned to their Friday inference work. HomeworkEnglish 8...

Theme and Sonnets

English I Honors students finished with the second sonnet (130), learning about the tonal shift and lyric moment that exists in the sonnets’ rhyming couplet. Afterward, students had the final 15 minutes to relax and solve logic puzzles, exercising their...