Complete the reflection

Work on your individual assignment as decided by your group

Review project sheet

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B Block:

• PARCC testing.

C Block:

• Students took the Vocab 11 Quiz.
• Students presented and discussed current events.
• Click here for the Vocab 12 list.

Homework: Vocab 12 graphic organizers due Tuesday.

B Block:

• Students finished their Twitter assignments and watched Act II, Scene II of the movie.

C Block:

• Students completed a cloze reading of Act II, Scene III.

Homework: 
Finish cloze readings of Act II, Scene III, study for Vocab Quiz 11, and write the vocab story.

B Block:

• Students completed Act II, Scene II Study Guides.

C Block:

• Students worked with partners to complete the Twitter Assignment. Students must read Act II, Scene II (the famous balcony scene) and translate the conversation between Romeo and Juliet into a modern-day Twitter or text message conversation.

Homework Assignment:

• Study for vocab.
• Vocab story due Friday.
• Finish Twitter assignment.

B Block:

• Students watched the movie version of Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes. Students filled out this graphic organizer while watching the movie.

C Block:

• Students wrote journal responses to the question: Knowing what you know now about how Romeo and Juliet met, is their relationship based on lust or love? Why?
• Students discussed how the director modernized Shakespeare's play in his movie.

Homework Assignment: 
Students must write a story of any topic using all nine of this week's vocab words. Due Friday.

B Block: 

• Students spent the first half of class presenting and discussing current events with Mr. Borghi. 
  
• Students also received Vocab List 11 which is due Tuesday.

C Block:

• Students spent the period in the computer lab completing sentence fill-ins for a tone open response. The sentence fill-ins and tone open response document is located in the students' Google folders for Humanities. Students should finish the sentence fill-ins (the first page of the document) over the weekend in preparation to write the open response in class on Monday. 

Homework assignment: Complete the sentence fill-ins (the first page of the open response document) in preparation to write the OR on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Today's focus: TONE

• Students reviewed the five elements of tone: Language, Images, Details, Diction, and Syntax (LIDDS).
• Students are working in groups to complete a tone analysis graphic organizer.
• Students are working together to identify and analyze the tone of the Prince's speech to the Montagues and the Capulets.

Homework: Finish graphic organizer.

Today we reviewed figurative language by answering multiple choice questions. We also began reading Act I Scene I of Romeo and Juliet up until the Prince's entrance into the play. We began a cloze reading of the Prince's speech to the Montagues and Capulets.
Homework: Finish cloze reading of the Prince's speech.