Sonnets and Close Reading

Sonnets and Close Reading

by | Nov 6, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods finished up their in-depth analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29. After analyzing the sonnet, we moved on to Sonnet 18 to start piecing together the elements of a sonnet. Second and seventh periods, after doing some comparative reading...
Analyzing and Comparing

Analyzing and Comparing

by | Nov 5, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and Fourth periods continued working on their projects by analyzing and dividing, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29. We’ll take a bit more time tomorrow to finish this up Second and seventh periods compared the original diary Anne Frank wrote with the...
Slips of Understanding and Play Prep

Slips of Understanding and Play Prep

by | Nov 4, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods looked at Shakespeare’s Sonnet number twenty-nine. When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing...

Parsing Long Sentences and the CRAP Test

by | Nov 1, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth period students had a relatively relaxing day, playing with incredibly long sentences that we took apart or created, all in anticipation of parsing some of Shakespeare’s long sentences (beginning next week). Second and fourth periods learned to...