First and fifth periods began the focus selection for the third quarter, “Flowers for Algernon.” We reviewed point of view as we’ll be looking at it quickly throughout the selection.

Notes from first and fifth periods

Afterward, we returned to observations and inferences by making them about Charlie Gordon’s first progress report individually and discussing them as a group.

Notes from first and fifth periods

Second and fourth periods returned to the friar’s soliloquy from 2.3, making a close reading of the text to determine its meaning and themes. We then looked at language tricks (i.e., figurative language and altered syntax) Shakespeare uses in this particular passage.

Notes from second and fourth periods

We’ll continue tomorrow sharing our findings before moving on to the final three scenes of act two.

Homework

• First and fifth periods: vocabulary words are due tomorrow (see yesterday’s update).
• Second and fourth periods:
  • complete close reading of Friar Laurence’s soliloquy for the language trick you chose while concluding group work:
    • Personification
    • Metaphor
    • Simile
    • Allusion
    • Reversals
      • Words
      • Thoughts
      • Sentence construction
  • complete act two of Romeo and Juliet.