Final Day and 3.1

Final Day and 3.1

English I Honors had a whoosh through 3.1 of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare is starting to turn the screws increasingly tighter, making things more and more challenging for our young lovers. We’ll be starting our culminating writing project on Monday, so students...
Penultimate Prep Day and a Test

Penultimate Prep Day and a Test

English I Honors had their act 2 test. We’ll begin act 3 after our field trip tomorrow. English 8 began with their article of the week. We went over some annotations they should have completed at this point. Afterward, they had their penultimate (next-to-last)...
Soliloquy and Project Work

Soliloquy and Project Work

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 like a drunkard reels From forth day’s path and...

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 have a chance to begin picking songs now that they know what the...
Dickens Points and Project

Dickens Points and Project

I was a little disappointed with the lackluster showing of English 8 students’ projects, so we took today to give some students another chance to turn the project in for reduced credit. English I students had a quick look at Dickens’s use of dialect and...