NINTH LIT
- Students did a journal activity on the reality of teenage romance.
- After a short study time, students took their quiz over Act I of Romeo and Juliet.
- We then took some notes on drama terms.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students did a journal activity about growing and reaching for goals.
- We then began a think-pair-share annotation activity over "The Chambered Nautilus."
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NINTH LIT
- Students did a short journal activity on the influence of parents and teenage rebellion in keeping with the themes of Romeo and Juliet.
- We went over our guided questions for Act I. These will be due next class!
- Students finished reading Act I of Romeo and Juliet. There will be a quiz over this next class!
- We began our mask activity: students created a mask for a character within the play, giving it symbolic colors and details as well as choosing and citing a quote for that character. This will be due next class!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students did a short journal activity on the influence of nature in their lives.
- We took some notes on the Fireside Poets, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes.
- We then read and annotated two poems by Holmes, Old Ironsides and The Chambered Nautilus
NINTH LIT
- Students took a quiz over DGP
- We went over the guided questions for Act I, specifically focusing on the terms for this act: pun, monologue, dialogue, and comedic relief.
- We then read Act I through scene 3.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students took a quiz over DGP
- Students then finished their reading circle groups, turning in their assigned role worksheets by the end of the period.
NINTH LIT
- Students completed their DGP work
- We then went over our Romeo and Juliet character chart, learning some of the main characters within Shakespeare's play
- We began reading R&J, watching some parts of it on film.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed their DGP work.
- We then began reading circle groups, reading various Romantic era pieces to gain understanding. Each student had an assigned job (Discussion Director, Literary Luminary, or Vocabulary Enricher); these jobs will be finished next class.
NINTH LIT
- Students completed their DGP work
- We then added on to their poetry notes, learning the four identifying marks of a Shakespearean sonnet.
- We read Shakespeare's sonnets 18 and 141, annotating them and identifying them as sonnets. We then read the prologue to Romeo and Juliet.
- Students will need their books next class!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed their DGP work
- We watched a video on literary devices and took notes from this
- Students then reviewed plot structure to prepare for our upcoming short story circles.
- We began reading The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving.
NINTH LIT
- Students took a series of notes on poetry, focusing on rhyme and meter.
- They then annotated a few songs as poems, looking for rhyme scheme, meter, internal and end rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance.
- Students then took a short pop quiz on poetry terms and their intro to Shakespeare video.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students took the Benchmark I exam.
NINTH LIT
- Students took Cornell notes as they watched a video on William Shakespeare. They turned in this worksheet at the end of the period.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students took notes on the Romantic literary period.
- They then looked at a selection from Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, annotating it for the key elements of Romanticism and Dark Romanticism.
NINTH LIT
- Students took the Benchmark I exam.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students completed the second half of their Revolutionary Unit Test.
NINTH LIT
- Students were split into two groups:
- One group completed a Shakespeare webquest on the computers
- One group did a retake of our Short Story Unit Test
- We then had a quick in-class discussion about an intro to William Shakespeare to get ready for our upcoming drama unit!
AMERICAN LIT
- Students took the first part of the Revolutionary Unit Test.
- There will be a second part of the test tomorrow!
NINTH LIT
- Students finished their papers and turned these in for a grade!
- Any late papers must be turned in ASAP for -20 points per day.
AMERICAN LIT
- Students recapped our previous annotations - The Crisis, Speech in the Virginia Convention, and To His Excellency.
- We then had a quick review for our test NEXT CLASS!
