Arguments about 3.1

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 active and passive voice. Students will need to take the pre-assessment...
Soliloquy and Vocabulary

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. Students presented their analysis of their division of the...
2.2 and Argument Analysis

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 made was that it is Juliet who brings up the topic of marriage and not...