Act I, Scene 3, Second Half

by | Oct 23, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods completed the Diary of Anne Frank I.3 today.  We used a two-sided journal to parse out some of the implications of select portions of the dialogue. Fourth period had a final day of preparation for the poetry presentations next week....

Act I, Scene 3, First Half

by | Oct 22, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods continued working on the Diary of Anne Frank. We completed the first half of scene three, and there were some splendidly prepared students who really put on a good show. [nggallery id=16] After acting out the play, we looked...

Anne Frank

by | Oct 20, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods completed the second scene from Diary of Anne Frank. After reading the scene, we looked closely at how much information can be inferred from a few passages of the dialogue. [nggallery id=16] We’ll be taking a break tomorrow for...

Dialogue

by | Oct 14, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods all worked on dialogue analysis. In a play, all things we learn about characters have to be teased out from the dialogue, so we practiced doing just that: reading closely what characters say to see what we can determine about the...

Final Practice and Tone

by | Oct 13, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods practiced their parts from Anne Frank.  First and seventh periods also worked on using context to determine a word’s meaning. Fourth period completed work with tone. After writing a description of walking a dog with a...