English I students worked on the major project for the Romeo and Juliet unit. We first looked at the encounter between Romeo and Tybalt to make some connections clear: We then turned our attention...
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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...
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....
Balcony Monologs and a Short TDQ
Today we worked on the monologs from the balcony (English I) and a TDQ (English 8) asdf
2.2 and Argument Analysis
Students in English I looked at several different versions of the balcony scene to see how important visual cues are in Shakespeare and have a few epiphanies from the scenes. One discovery students...
Benchmark, Practice Test, and Vocab
All students took the math benchmark today. As such, we had only thirty minutes per period. English I students worked on the practice test for Romeo and Juliet act I. The test will be on Friday....
Hidden Stage Instructions and TDA Revisions
English I students worked on some of the hidden stage instructions in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet : ROMEO […] Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till...
Mab and Final Drafts
English 8 students are finishing up their analytic paragraphs on "The Christmas Gift," a chapter from The Circuit. The kids did some amazing work today and made substantial progress on the project....
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...
More Quote Embedding and the Fight
English 8 students continued working on embedding quotes more effectively, creating essentially flow quotes instead of simple dialogue quotes. English I students continued working with 1.1, making...
Flow Quote Practice and the Opening Scene
English 8 students worked on their flow quotes a little more today. This round of practice will be significantly more challenging: not only do I not supply the quotes but also I don't supply the...
Tech-Free Library Day
Today, two worlds converged: Tech-Free Tuesday and library day. So all kids went to the library today to get a new book, and all kids worked without Chromebooks -- teachers, too, as much as...