--Please clear your desks of all but a writing utensil in preparation for today's mini-test.
S. the C.
--directions read/protocol shared (partial open notes)
Assessment -- MINI-TEST--Drama Terms/Poetry Terms; The Shakespearean Sonnet; "Sonnet 116"; Act 1 and Act 2 (Including Prologues)
--at the 25 minute mark, students can access and use any notes for the next 5 minutes
--at the 30 minute mark, students can access and use the text for the next 5 minutes
--When finished, place your best work in the black basket on the front table. Then,...
- log in to Membean and complete a training session AND/OR
- engage in free reading
Brain Break -- Baz Luhrmann Film
--If everyone completes the assessment and time still remains in the class block, we will view the beginning of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
On the backburner:
--If everyone completes the assessment and time still remains in the class block, we will view the beginning of Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM TOMORROW (Thursday, 3/28) (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
HW (Class Preparation)
--If you have not yet selected your final free reading book of the school year, consider doing so ASAP (with the knowledge, though, that we will head to the library during class soon)--ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
Miscellaneous
FYI: We will proceed with Act 3 next class block!
HW (Class Preparation)
--If you have not yet selected your final free reading book of the school year, consider doing so ASAP (with the knowledge, though, that we will head to the library during class soon)--ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
Miscellaneous
FYI: We will proceed with Act 3 next class block!
On the backburner:
- Finishing Gnomeo & Juliet by further discussing/returning to guide
- opening a window into The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
- continuing to master Reading Literature standards, irony, and theme
- Prior to "The Interlopers", complete acting activity reviewing the types of irony from both Gnomeo & Juliet and Act 1 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
- Writing returned/revised in waves
- Wave 1?!?!
- Wave 2--organization as per sample paragraphs for "The Cask of Amontillado"
- Prior to "The Interlopers", share a few paragraphs as review of both organization and concepts therein.
- Wave 3--grammar hammer as per common errors
- Continuing to master Reading Literature standards, irony, and theme
- Short works--The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Unit
- Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
- Saki's "The Interlopers
