Finishing Hamlet and Working on Sonnets

by | Nov 6, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

In English I, we got back with our partners to discuss which of the five versions of the soliloquy was the best and which was the worst. Then every group got up and had 30 seconds to argue why they chose the ones they did. At the end of class we got out our sonnets...
Drawing Mistress and Rules for Sonnet

Drawing Mistress and Rules for Sonnet

by | Oct 29, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Today in class we started off the day by getting with a partner and comparing last nights homework.We also started another sonnet; Sonnet 130.We got to do a fun activity which was to draw how we thought mistress looked like based on the sonnet.We also took notes on...
First Encounters with Shakespeare

First Encounters with Shakespeare

by | Oct 26, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Today in class we made an insanely long sentence by adding words after words to create it.We also made our first encounter with Shakespeare, we read Sonnet 29 and divided  up the sonnet by creating two lists to understand how each part modifies a certain thing. Here...
First Topics and Sonnets

First Topics and Sonnets

by | Oct 21, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors classes are working towards the Shakespeare unit, which we will begin next week, and we are accomplishing this through Shakespeare’s sonnets as a way to bring the poetry unit to the Romeo and Juliet unit. Today we finished up the complicated...
Puns and Tempers

Puns and Tempers

by | Nov 14, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods looked at how and why Shakespeare used questionable humor in his plays. We looked at the first 30 lines to determine how Shakespeare uses puns to create an opening that appealed to the groundlings in the Globe Theater. Second and seventh...