2.3 Soliloquy Paraphrasing

2.3 Soliloquy Paraphrasing

by | Feb 4, 2025 | English I Honors, Update

In class today, English 1 students were introduced to Friar Laurence’s Soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 3. A soliloquy is a monologue that an actor/actress says on stage by themselves. They were split into groups and analyzed certain parts of the soliloquy. After this, they...

4.2 and Finishing Douglass Text 2

by | Feb 6, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students went over the second part of the text about Frederick Douglass. We went over the required annotations and the paraphrasing students worked on in class. English I students covered 4.2 from Romeo and Juliet. HomeworkEnglish 8: answer questions...
Comma Completion and Paraphrasing

Comma Completion and Paraphrasing

by | Feb 26, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods continued with their paraphrases of excerpts of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. It’s a challenge, for passages read like this: Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom,...

Heroes and Commas

by | Feb 25, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

Today of first and fourth periods we started the group work with The Hero with A Thousand Faces. We’re trying to look at the meaning of the text and how it relates to The Odyssey. We’ve started by paraphrasing the passage we have and then we’ll be...