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...
Assessing and 1.2

Assessing and 1.2

English 8 students assessed some others’ work (anonymously, of course) from last week when we were working on quote integrating and making flow quotes: English I students worked on 1.2 from Romeo and Juliet. We looked at some of Capulet’s lines and saw how...