First and fourth periods worked on understanding Shakespeare without the text in front of you. They watched versions of Act 2, scenes 4, 5, and 6 after going over some tricks to help with comprehension of spoken Elizabethan English. We also looked briefly at Friar Laurence’s advice to the young couple (though technically only given to Romeo):

These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Second and seventh periods completed act two scene one of The Diary of Anne Frank.

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We’ll finish up tomorrow looking at how the relationship between Anne and Peter is developing and changing.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • paraphrase the quote mentioned above;
  • read act 3 scene 1;
  • continue working on the quarter-long vocabulary project;
  • continue working on the quarter-long stems project.