English 8 students worked on their one-pagers, finishing them in class before heading to the library to get another book for the next one-pager. We began, though, by working with our article of the...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Finishing Douglass, Starting Act IV
English I Honors students began the fourth act of Romeo and Juliet. We looked at 3.5 again to see a couple of examples of subtext -- where there is a second meaning to a text that one character or...
Practice Test and Final Douglass
English 8 students began the final part of the Frederick Douglass text we've been working on in class. This passage students analyze as individuals, the last bit of our scaffolded practice. English...
3.5 and More
English I Honors students finished act 3 in class and then had time to work on outstanding work. English 8 students finished up allusion work.
Gallery Walk and Text Structures
English 8 students worked with text structures today. We've completed all six text structures and are now practicing identifying from all six. English I Honors students worked on 3.2 and 3.3,...
Projects
English I Honors students began the major analytic writing assignment associated with Romeo and Juliet. We'll be connecting songs to the play to create a soundtrack for a hypothetical film. [gallery...
Tableaux and Part 3
English I Honors students went through act three scene one today by working on tableaux vivants. Afterward, students wrote...
Text Structures and Viewing
English I Honors students today finished up act 2, watching scenes 4-6 without any text in front of them. It was part practice, part encouragement: students seemed to understand more than they...
2.3 and Discussion
English I Honors students worked on the friar's famous soliloquy, which has all the elements of a perfect soliloquy: Displays attributes of the character Foreshadows the play Involves philosophical...
Balcony Scene and Final Group Annotations
English 8 students worked on the final day of their group reading work, tackling Frederick Douglass's linguistically tricky explanation of the effect slavery had on his owner's wife as well as on...
All 2s: Douglass Part 2 and RJ 2.2
English 8 students started working on the second part of the Frederick Douglass text. We'll be working through this challenging text over the next couple of days. English I students worked on act 2...
Elliptical Constructions and Final Subordination
English I Honors worked on another little language trick Shakespeare likes to use: elliptical constructions. We used the prologue from act 2 as a model for our work. We've got two we're looking for...
