Hello! Here's what we're up to:
- Checking in
- Heads up that there's a decent chance I won't be here tomorrow
- Eng 8:
- Peer review!
- Hand in everything tomorrow
- Update on assignments
- Handing out Romeo and Juliet and character sheet
- The essay!
- Recapping the all the criteria - all four pieces must be together
- Hand it in!
- Do not email me - submit it to Teams or hand it in
- Hand in your novels!
- How did that go?
- Final report card interviews
- Checking the schedule - note that we've peaked in terms of difficulty
- There's still work to do, though, and this is often the window where some students start to fall behind or pull ahead
- Intro to new assignments! Yay!
- Intro to Shakespeare
- Why vs why not Shakespeare
- How are you feeling about reading it?
- Brief history of English and the printing press
- A not-great documentary
- The beginning of Shakespeare in Love
- Five Acts and the Plot Triangle
- Shakespeare-isms
- Thee/thou
- Est
- Dost
- Iambic Pentameter - practice it
- Intro to the play
- Distributing the books
- Context
- Timeline
- Play on words of the title
- Remember: at its heart, this is a silly play
- Character chart
- How we'll study it
- More creative freewrites to start the class
- Reading aloud in class - everyone is expected to read at least once
- Watching the film
- Let's start reading!
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