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...
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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...
Subordinate Clauses and Test Prep
English I Honors students worked on test prep for tomorrow's Romeo and Juliet test. English 8 students continued with subordinate clause work.
5.1 and Subordinate Clauses
English I Honors looked at two of the most iconic passages of Romeo and Juliet, We noted the motif of light and dark, which will appear throughout the play. We also noticed an inversion and...
Mab’s Structure
English 8 students worked on text structures, learning about the next two structures, cause/effect and problem/solution. English I Honors students looked at the...
Socratic Seminar and Views of Love
English 8 students had a Socratic Seminar based on the reading from Frederick Douglass. English I Honors students worked on the characters' varying views of love in Romeo and Juliet. [gallery...
Project and Step One Wrap Up
English I Honors took the shortened time after the second day of district-mandated benchmark testing, which puts us on a two-hour delay schedule with half an hour per class, to work through some...
Hidden Stage Directions and Transitioning
English 8 students transitioned from working on pronouns and antecedents to using them as a reading comprehension aid. We started working on the Frederick Douglass text we'll be focussing on this...
Starting the Play and Antecedents
English I Honors students worked on the opening of Romeo and Juliet. The opening pages are pun-filled and not all of the puns (or in fact, none of the puns) are immediately accessible to...
