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Monday, April 13, 2015

Monday, April 13th, 2015

Welcome Back from Spring Break!
   Be prepared, stay alert, do your work, study & be at school -- this quarter goes by quick!

Today we continued our dramatic reading of Romeo and Juliet;  our test on Shakespeare and the play will be on Wednesday.  On Wednesday, you will also have to prove who you think is most responsible for the tragedy and use proofs from the play to support your choice.

Princeton & Yale:
worked on Journal entry #1 --
Literary Elements (Character) as we began reviewing for the MAP test in May.

They also worked on a review sheet on Shakespeare.

Homework:
SS #69
Research Project due Friday 4/17
      find 5 quotations or idioms that we received from Shakespeare
      explain each
      find 10 words that are attributed to Shakespeare (he gave us between 2 and 3 thousand -- just look online!)
      define these words
      give the part of speech
      list your sources (properly)

Begin determining who you believe is most guilty in the Romeo and Juliet tragedy; tomorrow you will continue planning your answer and Wednesday we will construct our letter to the Prince of Verona in class.

(CHECK GRADES -- students who were absent April 1st and/or April 2nd need to be sure that all work is made up for the 4th quarter;  tests were taken on our novels, packets handed in; short writes completed.)


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