Research and Last Soliloquy

Research and Last Soliloquy

English 8 students continued working on their research for the argumentative essay we will be writing next week. Students should be finishing the research tomorrow. The next TDA will take place on Thursday, so we will have a shortened lesson then. We won’t begin...
Subtext and Research

Subtext and Research

English I students worked on determining the subtext of certain passages in scenes one and two from act four of Romeo and Juliet. The occurrence of subtextual elements will increase as the play continues. English 8 students had day two of their research for their...
Essays and Echoes

Essays and Echoes

English 8 began the second phase of the research project: using the research we worked on last week to create an informational essay. We’re working with the following framework: Paragraph 1: Introduction Paragraph 2: Background Paragraph 3: Heroic Acts Paragraph...
Mab and Research

Mab and Research

English I students worked on one of the most famous passages of Romeo and Juliet: Mercutio’s Queen Mab monologue. In going over this famous passage, we covered two new topics: parallel construction / parallelism elliptical constructions These two...