English I Honors students finished up Friar Laurence's soliloquy in 2.3: The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, And flecked darkness...
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Starting the Project and Motifs
English I Honors students worked on two motifs that appear throughout Romeo and Juliet: light/dark and fate. We'll be looking for these things throughout the rest of the play. English 8 began their...
Sick Day
Out with a sick little boy today.
MAP 2017 Day 1
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...
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...
