Day 33

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