English I students worked on their projects, specifically completing their two paragraphs for “Decoration Day.” These should be completed by Friday so students can turn in their work and begin workshopping their work. English 8 students worked on...
English I students began act 3 in Romeo and Juliet. They created tableaux vivants to help create a summary of the scene. Students created quite accurate summaries from the tableaux themselves. This slideshow requires JavaScript. English 8 students finished up...
Today in class, our English 1 students watched act 2 scenes 4, 5, and 6. They wrote down questions during the scene and at the end they wrote a one sentence summary. We also looked at the study guide questions for...
English I students worked on their first soliloquy in the play and met Fr. Lawrence in the process: The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day’s...
In class today, English 1 students were introduced to Friar Laurence’s Soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 3. A soliloquy is a monologue that an actor/actress says on stage by themselves. They were split into groups and analyzed certain parts of the soliloquy. After this, they...
English I students finished up 2.2 today, looking at several performances of fragments of the scene to see what elements made the performance more or less realistic. From my perspective, it was also my aim for students to hear the scene properly acted (we are, after...
English I students looked at the two monologues in 2.2, examining it for parallelism, inversions, and the like. English 8 began “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.” We’ll be paying attention to the setting and use of figurative language and literary devices....
English I worked on 1.5, discovering a few things that will be on repeat throughout the rest of the play. English 8 students finished up the jigsaw reading of the Frederick Douglass excerpt we read. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: begin...
English I students looked at 1.5, specifically at all the hidden stage instructions in the opening lines: We’ll finish it up tomorrow looking at the exchange between Tybalt and Capulet. English 8 students finished up their annotations and summaries of their...
English I students were excited to begin Romeo and Juliet. We went over the the the prologue and determined that the opening lines literally revolve around the the “pair of star-cross’d lovers. Once students determined that the prologue is essentially a...
English 8 students finished their analytic essays today (in theory). Anyone who didn’t finish will have until the end of the week to complete it. English I students, because so many won’t be here tomorrow due to the field trip, and their winter surprise:...
English I students finally got the reward of their project labor: students played each others’ Odyssey games. English 8 finished up (in theory) their final writing project. HomeworkEnglish 8: don’t forget to bring your snacks for the party Thursday...
English I students worked on their Odyssey games — the last day. Today, students played their own games for the first time to work out kinks in the instructions and game play itself. English 8 students continued working on their analytic essays on “The...
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