Category Archives: Class News

May26

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  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 116, identify literary devices (pun, oxymoron, personification, alliteration, double entendre, etc.)
    • Highlight your examples
    • Explain through annotation what literary devices were used and how you know this to be true
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Book Talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Finish Research. Due tonight by 11:59 pm to Google Classroom.
May25

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  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 116, identify the theme(s) of the sonnet.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Explain through annotation how your evidence helped you to figure out the theme(s) of the sonnet
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Book Talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Continue research. Due 5/26 by 11:59 pm to Google Classroom.
May24

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  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 116:
  • Sonnet 116
    • Read the sonnet
    • Identify the rhyme scheme
    • How many syllable per line?
    • What do you call every four lines in a sonnet? How about the last two lines?
    • What other unique features did you learn about sonnets?
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Book Talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Begin research of the Elizabethan Age. Due 5/26 by 11:59 pm to Google Classroom.
May20

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  • SLOT-Write a Shakespearean Sonnet.
    • Your sonnet must be about love
    • Your sonnet must follow the proper structure (you should have taken notes on Monday!)
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Book Talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Finish script. Due tonight by 11:59 to Google Classroom!
May19

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  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 18, paraphrase each quatrain, and the rhyming couplet. Do this on the back of Sonnet 18! Make sure to use the appropriate heading for each paraphrased section:
    • Quatrain 1-
    • Quatrain 2-
    • Quatrain 3-
    • Rhyming Couplet-
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Book Talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Continue writing script. Script due tomorrow by 11:59 pm to Google Classroom.
May18

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  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 18, identify literary devices (pun, oxymoron, personification, alliteration, double entendre, etc.)
    • Highlight your examples
    • Label and explain through annotation
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes/Book Talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Continue writing script. Due 5/20 by 11:59 pm to Google Classroom.
May17

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  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 18, identify the theme(s) of the sonnet.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Explain how your evidence helped you to figure out the theme of the sonnet
  • SSR-Read novel/Book talks
  • Romeo and Juliet-Continue writing script. Script due 5/20 by 11:59 pm to Google Classroom.