Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book.
Do tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading on your bookmark when you finish.
Week 6: 5/28 - 6/3
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a play.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
I can support my opinion with evidence from the text.
I can use context clues and word roots to infer the meanings of unfamiliar words.
- Independent Reading is back!
- Bookmark Back Models
- Hunting for sin quotes
- Could it really happen?
Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book.
Do tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading on your bookmark when you finish.
Week 6: 5/28 - 6/3
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a play.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
I can support my opinion with evidence from the text.
- Independent Reading is back!
- Quickwrite
#5: Which of the seven deadly sins (and their good friend haste) is most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? You may blame more than one of the sins, but start with the most important.
- Hunting for sins
- Could it really happen?
Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book.
Do tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading on your bookmark when you finish.
Week 6: 5/28 - 6/3
Today's Learning Targets:
I can compare two different versions of a film to analyze the effects of a director's choices.
- Independent Reading is back!
- Quickwrite
#5: Coming tomorrow ...
- Zeffirelli v. Luhrmann
- Could it really happen?
Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book.
Do tonight: Read 15 minutes. Record your reading on your bookmark when you finish.
Week 6: 5/28 - 6/3
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a full length film.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
I can support my opinion with evidence from the text.
- Independent Reading is back! Woo hoo!
- Quickwrite
#4: Who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Why do you think so? You may argue that more than one person is responsible, but work through them one at a time, beginning with the person with the greatest responsibility.
- Getting the facts straight
- Could it really happen?
Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book. We will resume personal reading formally
next Tuesday, but you always want a book with you, just in case.
Due Last Friday: Thematic Paragraph. You can turn this in for full credit any time up until Thursday.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a full length film.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
- Quickwrite
#3: Write about love at first sight OR continue a previous quickwrite. You may write in the narrative, expository, or argumentative mode.
- Question Check
- Romeo and Juliet Video (with notes)
Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book. We will resume personal reading formally
next Tuesday, but you always want a book with you, just in case.
Due Last Friday: Thematic Paragraph. You can turn this in for full credit any time up until Thursday.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a full length film.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
- Quickwrite
#3: Coming tomorrow ...
- Question Check & Act I Review
- Romeo and Juliet Video (with notes)
Do Every Day: Bring
your personal reading book. We will resume personal reading formally
next Tuesday, but you always want a book with you, just in case.
Due Last Friday: Thematic Paragraph. You can turn this in for full credit any time up until Thursday.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a full length film.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
- Quickwrite #2: Write about a good best friend OR continue your writing from yesterday. You may in either the narrative or the expository mode.
- What is learned helplessness? How do I fight it?
- Romeo and Juliet Video (with notes)
Do Every Day: Bring your personal reading book. We will resume personal reading formally next Tuesday, but you always want a book with you, just in case.
Due Last Friday: Thematic Paragraph. You can turn this in for full credit any time up until Thursday.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can track the development of a theme over the course of a full length film.
I can make connections between the culture of Elizabethan England and our culture.
- Why did he have to kill the baby?
- Quickwrite #1: Write about two groups of people that hate each other. You may in either the narrative or the expository mode.
- Romeo and Juliet Video (with notes)
- Return The Pearl to the Library
Do Every Day: Bring your personal reading book.
Due at the end of class today: Thematic Paragraph
Today's Learning Targets:
I can use evidence to support my interpretation of a novel's theme.
- Revisiting the opinionaire
- Punctuating quotations
- Type like the wind ...
Do Every Day: Bring your personal reading book and your copy of The Pearl.
Due Now: Read to the bottom of page 77. We'll start there on Thursday. If you're behind, you won't have a chance to catch up.
Today's Learning Targets:
I can use textual evidence to track the development of a theme.
I can work with my peers to develop multiple interpretations of a text.
I can write good questions.
I can use evidence to support my interpretation of a novel's theme.
- Chapter 5: 1 quote
- Read Aloud
- Gut reaction
- Class discussion
- Thematic Paragraph
