Opinions & Themes

Today after a quick review of the terms protagonist and antagonist, we broke into groups and reviewed the homework and took an opinion survey based on Romeo and Juliet. We wrapped up the day with a quick look at the survey.

Romeo and Juliet Theme Survey

• Answer all the questions.
• You must agree or disagree with each statement, but feel free to comment or clarify your answers.
• Only take the survey once.

Click here to take the survey.

Shakespeare Workshop Wrap

Today we powered through the rest of the Literary Analysis Workshop (pp. 932-937), taking notes and talking through the passages and questions. Students should finish the work on pages 936 and 937 for homework if needed.

More Shakespeare Intro

Today we began by finishing up and reviewing the work on on pages 930-31 and started on the notes from pages 932-33.

A Less-traditional Love Poem

Today we continued our sonnet review with Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130," and then took some notes on the Shakespeare introduction on pages 130 and 131 of the textbook.

Getting Ready for the Bard

Today we spent the period reviewing poetry terms and studying "Sonnet 18" in preparation for the Shakespeare unit and our reading of Romeo and Juliet.

A Long Overdue Poetry Test

Today we took the test at the end of the poetry unit in preparation for a good, long, much-needed break.

One more day with Billy

Today the warm-up was the short vocab exercise at the top of p. 762 (#s 1-4). After that, students had time to work on finishing the questions we began yesterday.

Wrapping Up Billy

Today we warmed up with a close read of the final section of the story on page 759. After sharing the sequence charts from yesterday, students worked with partners margin questions C, G and H. Students had some time to begin the story questions on 761 (1-9, 8=extra credit).

More "Charming Billy"

Today we warmed up with A on page 752. We then headed a fresh piece of paper and did B on p. 754 and E on p. 755. We wrapped up the period doing the Sequence Chain as explained in the middle of p. 751.

Flashback and Literary Realism

Today we started with a brief look at the vocab on page 751 and I collected the HW (pp. 748-49). After reviewing the ideas of flashback and realism, we listened to "Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?" marking examples of both techniques with stickies.

Wednesday & Thursday

• Wednesday we began with some style practice in the warm-up and spent the rest of the day on the Style and Voice notes on page 746 and the Style and Voice practice on page 747.
• Thursday, after writing about the discussion prompt on page 750 in our warm-ups, we did "Analyze the Literature" on pages 748 and 749.

Stylistically Speaking

Today we continued our look at style, wrapping up the notes on p. 744 and doing the close reading questions on p. 745.

Today we warmed up with the "What is Style?" question on page 742 and started the notes on page 744.

Wrapping Up

Today while a few students finished up yesterday's quarter 3 assessment, students worked on questions 5-10 on p. 725 (11 was extra credit). We finished up the day talking about the questions. Absent students or those who didn't get a chance to finish the questions should do so for HW.