All students took the winter MAP reading test today. That means all other classes met only for half a hour. English I Honors students finished up yesterday's work by looking at the Royal Shakespeare...
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Outlining and the Balcony Scene
English 8 students worked on outlining in preparation for the project we'll begin shortly on the habits of effective teens. Today we used a text about paradigms to practice our outlining. We focused...
December Friday
English I Honors students had their act 1 test on Romeo and Juliet. English 8 students did their Friday inference work. And here are this week's Dojo 100% Clubs
Practice Test and Outlining
English I students finished up the first act of Romeo and Juliet. We had a practice test today to see what the actual test tomorrow will look like. English 8 students began combining skills, using...
Quiz, Outlining, and 1.5
English 8 students had a stems quiz today followed by an overview of outlining, which we will use in our current unit to apply our newly-minted summarizing skills. English I Honors students went...
Hidden Stage Directions and Summarizing
English I Honors students began 1.5 by looking at all the various stage directions that Shakespeare embeds in his text. We finished up with the tirade Tybalt goes on when he discovers Romeo's...
Mab Habits
English I students worked on the Queen Mab passage in Romeo and Juliet. "O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an...
Project Overview
Today was career day, so our academic portion of the day was shortened to the time of a two-hour snow delay. English I Honors had a project overview for the Romeo and Juliet unit project. They'll...
1.3 and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors students worked on 1.3, looking a little at the hidden stage directions Shakespeare embeds in his work as well as the new characters' views of love and marriage, finishing up from...
Friday Work and Love Connections
English I Honors students looked at a few passages in Romeo and Juliet to determine various characters' views of love. Working in groups, students examined Capulet's, Benvolio's, and Romeo's views...
Discussion and 1.1
English I Honors went over 1.1 of Romeo and Juliet, working in Quizlet to see how well they're understanding the text and then acting out a few select sections. English 8 students began preparing...
Lottery and a Brawl
English I Honors students, after going over the end of yesterday's lesson and why it was so vulgar compared to what they were expecting (it has something to do with the audience gathering in the...
