Thursday, April 28, 2011

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.

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.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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.

Monday, April 25, 2011

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.

Friday, April 15, 2011

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.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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.