Hello English 1 students!

Please submit your questions to the basket before class

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Drama Terms Review

2. Sonnets and Iambic Pentameter

3. Start Act II

HW: 

-Study for your quiz tomorrow
            Review ALL of the drama terms on your flashcards and review the SONNET worksheet!!

-If you did not finish the Iambic Pentameter worksheet, finish it for HW!

Hello English 1 students

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Sub Report

2. Warm up: soliloquy, monlogue, aside worksheet

3. Review Act 1 questions and Dramatic Foils

4. Finish Scene 5

HW: Act 1, Scene 5 Questions

Hello English 1 students!

Hope you all had a great weekend. 

YOU WILL NEED: FOLDERS AND TEXTBOOKS

 Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: Journal Topic #1

2. Review Act 1, Scenes 1-4 

3. Finish Scene 5 (?)

4. Class Visit at 11:50 am RE: testing

HW: Complete the Act 1 Review and Assess questions, page 792 (textbooks)

DUE TUESDAY (to basket)


HEADS UP: there will be a quiz on ACT I FRIDAY.

Happy Friday English 1 students!

Please grab a textbook as you come in.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Check HW/Flashcards

-Use the flashcards to study for your quiz next week!

2. Continue Act 1

Hello English 1 students!

Grab your folders and a textbook as you come in.

Have your HW out so that I may stamp it, put BOTH pages in your folders when you are done!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Insults and Puns activity

2. Continue Act I

Hello English 1 students!

Please hold on to your prologue questions, we will review them before you submit them.

Here is the agenda:

1. Warm Up: prologue review

2. Round and flat characters/Dramatic Foils

3. Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1


HW: using the character map, fill out the worksheet to keep track of characters in the play. 

DUE THURSDAY!!! Bring back BOTH worksheets, they will be kept in your R and J folders.

Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1.  Folder set up and instructions

2. Act I vocabulary

3. Romeo and Juliet: prologue reading and discussion

HW: Please respond to the following nine questions on the prologue for Romeo and Juliet: 

Romeo and Juliet: The Prologue       DUE WEDNESDAY

1.              What is the setting of the play?

2.              How do the two families feel about eachother?

3.              What does Shakespeare mean by “star-crossed lovers”?

4.              What happens to the lovers?

5.              What is the play going to be about?

6.              What does the chorus ask the audience to do in the last two lines?  Why?

7.              What is the name of the poetic form that Shakespeare uses for the prologue?  How many lines are there?

8.              What is the rhyme scheme?

9.              Give me three examples of alliteration (the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry).

Hello English 1 students! Today is a minimum day. 

Here is the agenda:

1. Review Shakespearean Background

2. Elizabethan Language and translation worksheet

HW:

-Finish Elizabethan Language worksheet DUE TUESDAY
-Make drama terms flashcards DUE FRIDAY

Happy Friday! 

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm Up:

Review Ideal Mate Worksheet!

2. Shakespeare Background- Stations

Today, you will be working in groups to develop your background on Shakespeare and theatre.


Step 1: get into groups of five (30seconds)

Materials: each group member will need a pencil and paper

Step 2: in your groups number off one through five
Step 3: with your new group, study the information at the station that corresponds to your number. (Example- if you were numbered off as a "1" go to STATION 1).

At each station, there are a list of questions. On your piece of paper, write the question number and the correct response based on what you read. REMEMBER- it is your responsibility to become an expert on the information so you can teach the other the members of your original group what you learned.

YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES AT YOUR STATIONS.

Step 4: when you return to your original group, you will present your information for four minutes each to your other group members. GROUP MEMBERS NEED TO TAKE NOTES ON THE INFORMATION FROM OTHER STATIONS. 




Note: there will be a quiz/review on Shakespearean Background and Drama terms next week!!

Hello English 1 students!

Here is our agenda for today:

1. Warm up: review Romeo and Juliet questions
2. Drama Terms and Notes
3. Distribute and start Ideal Mate worksheet

HW:

1. You and your parents need to complete the Ideal Mate worksheet, DUE FRIDAY
2. Study the drama terms from today, there will be a review you turn in for credit tomorrow!!

Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1. Warm up: when you think of social offenses, what comes to mind? Explain. 

2. Social Offenses Activity and Response


-Tomorrow there will be a substitute teacher. You will be working on Romeo and Juliet pre-reading questions and will begin the Ideal Mate survey activity.

The Ideal Mate activity is a worksheet with questions for both you and your parents. 

There are two parts to this activity-

Part 1: you will respond to the questions (IN COMPLETE SENTENCES).
Part 2: you will take the worksheet home and have either of your parents respond to their questions and sign the worksheet.

You will start working on this Wednesday in class, it is due FRIDAY. We will go over it and it will be submitted for credit.

Any attempt to forge parents responses or signatures will result in a phone call home and lunch detention. 

Hello English 1 students!

I hope you all had a wonderful spring break!

Here is the agenda for today:

1.Warm Up: tell me everything that you know about the play-write William Shakespeare. What questions would you ask him if you could?

2. Romeo and Juliet Anticipation Guide

3. Pre-reading Questionnaire

The week ahead:

-We will be jumping into our Romeo and Juliet unit this week!!