Project Work

Project Work

Students today worked on their Romeo and Juliet projects. It was not something I’d planned on doing, but as I was looking at students’ work as they came to me in the morning before school, I realized that one more day of consultation would be really...
Timeline and Explosion

Timeline and Explosion

Today we looked at the timeline of the play for a few minutes at the start of class: Students were surprised at the realization that it’s only Monday night and everything began Sunday morning. Afterward, we read 3.5 and witnessed Capulet’s eruption in...
Connections

Connections

We began today by going over the latest article of the week, looking at a complete of connections that I wanted students to make within the text. Afterward, we returned to the work of tracking down some of the ways that Shakespeare has characters start echoing each...
Continuing with Echoes and Connections

Continuing with Echoes and Connections

Students who were not taking the PSAT today continued working on the same work from yesterday in which we examine various passages in the play to see how Shakespeare is having his characters echo each other. Students received materials with four of the excepts that we...
Gallery Walk

Gallery Walk

Today, we looked at several passages in 3.2 and 3.3 in a super-spaced, socially-distanced gallery walk, which we held in the library: Students examined various passages, and after working their way through any comprehension problems, they looked for echoes of other...