Today in first and fourth periods we took another look at 2.1 and 2.2 of Romeo and Juliet.

Annotations for prompt book

We worked on identifying hidden stage directions in the text and got into groups to investigate a set of dialogue even further.

Second and seventh periods finished up yesterday’s comparison work by planning out a Schaffer-modeled writing assignment.

Second period’s notes

Seventh period’s notes

Afterward, we switched to the second lesson of the week that covers three informational text standards:

• RI6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
• RI8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
• RI9. Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.

We began the two-day lesson looking at a text presenting a Holocaust denial argument. We marked it for evidence and will continue working on it tomorrow.

Homework

• English I Honors: complete the study guide for 2.2.