Today, we looked at several passages in 3.2 and 3.3 in a super-spaced, socially-distanced gallery walk, which we held in the library:

Students examined various passages, and after working their way through any comprehension problems, they looked for echoes of other passages, both from the passages displayed in the library and from the larger play itself.

They discovered that this passage:

Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.

is frightfully similar to something Romeo said earlier.

They realized this passage

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!

is also similar to Romeo’s words earlier in the play.

We’ll look a little more closely at these parallels during tomorrow’s lessons.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • continue working on “Decoration Day” paragraphs;
  • complete act 3 study guide through scene 4;
  • work on AOW as necessary.