English 8 students continued reading “The Tears of Autumn.” Students should how have only the last page and a half to read and to annotate for tomorrow.

English I students began actually acting/reading Romeo and Juliet.

They discovered a couple of things:

1. R&J is not what they expect — there are some scenes that seem decidedly uncharacteristic of what they expect of Shakespeare.
2. It’s not a dry serious piece — whether or not they got the puns or found them amusing after ewe went through them, the play opens with some Dad-joke-level punning.

We’ll be finishing up scene 1 tomorrow.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • students who have not yet completed the quote integration project from “The Christmas Gift” (on Google Classroom) need to complete and to submit it by Thursday;
  • No Red Ink is due this week (don’t blow a straight-forward 100).
• English I Honors: 
  • complete act 1 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet;
  • complete “Introduction to Shakespearean Language” on Moodle;
  • groups that didn’t turn in their instructions and questions from the Odyssey project need to do so;
  • individuals who did not complete the project self-evaluation need to do so;
  • No Red Ink is due this week (don’t blow a straight-forward 100).