English I Honors students turned the final moments of Romeo and Juliet to finish the examination of the play for references in any way to fate. We’ll be using these copious notes from Friday and today when we look at tomorrow’s work, which will deal with a rather tough essay prompt similar to the one they will get regularly in high school. It’s time they learn how to make heads and tails of such prompts, so we’ll be doing that tomorrow.

English 8 Strategies students returned to the argument, as it is Monday, and looked at a second argumentative informational text about the line between adulthood and adolescence. This text is based on a New York Times article that I simplified a bit. We’ll continue working with the text, but tomorrow, we’ll begin with a quiz on the vocabulary terms at the bottom of the text.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • continue working on your practice test evaluation, which will be due tomorrow;
  • continue working on the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack project, which will be due in approximately three weeks.