RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

English I Honors students compared two versions of 1.1 from Romeo and Juliet to determine how modern directors can try to make the opening scene of the play, which is supposed to have a great deal of humor in it, actually funny to modern audiences. Sometimes the directors fail, sometimes they succeed. We looked at two versions to see what works and what doesn’t when compared to the original text.

W2. Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.

English 8 Strategies students continued working on their informational texts. We’re using Google Drive to create our work and then will use it next week to start peer editing our work. Having now completed two days in the lab for the work, students are now responsible for completed the work, detailed below, on their own.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • read scenes two and three for tomorrow;
  • rough draft of full sonnet is due tomorrow;
  • quiz on tone vocabulary words tomorrow;