First and sixth periods worked on PASS review material for the written response assessment coming up next month. Second and sixth periods finished the Romeo and Juliet act quizzes and continued...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Prompts, Performances, and Research
First and sixth periods worked on the Anne Frank projects, presenting and exploring the second half of act one scene three. Second and fourth periods worked on parsing complicated essay questions to...
Scene 3.1, Romeo’s Speech, and Note Taking
First and sixth periods continued with The Diary of Anne Frank, with the second group (presenting the first half of scene three) giving performances in both periods. Second and fourth periods...
Scene Review, Fate, and Research
First and sixth periods went over in detail the scene we covered yesterday in class. We also read from Anne's original diary to see how things differed compared to the play. Second and fourth looked...
Group One Acting, Reponsibility, and Research
The day began with a school-wide recognition of the Hughes girls' and boys' basketball teams, both of whom won the country middle school championship Saturday. First and sixth periods had the first...
Downtime
I apologize for yesterday's downtime. The site's database had a corrupted table, which was preventing scripts from retrieving any relevant data and thus making it impossible to render the page....
Prep, Subtext, and Narrowing
First and sixth periods spent their final full day of preparation for the Anne Frank presentation project. Groups spent time rehearsing their lines and making sure they had their blocking organized...
Preparation, Completion, and Subtexts
First and sixth periods worked on their Anne Frank projects. This involved close-reading the text to determine necessary props, movements, body language, tone, and all the other myriad elements that...
Planning
First and sixth periods began the first of two and a half days of planning and preparing for their Anne Frank acting project. Second and fourth periods took the act three quiz. We began looking...
PASS Practice and Friday Wrap-ups
First and sixth periods went over the PASS writing exam. It's in a few weeks, and we'll be dedicating every Friday to PASS preparation. Second and fourth continued with Romeo and Juliet, and seventh...
Beginning Drama, Finishing Up Act 3, and Figurative Language
First and sixth periods began (some students might add "finally" to that) acting out The Diary of Anne Frank. We went over the first scene in class, looking at all the little things that students...
The Secret Annex, Performances, Think Alouds
First and sixth periods went over homework before taking a look at the portion of the diary in which Anne describes the Secret Annex. We used a virtual tour available at annefrank.org to see what...
