Category Archives: Class News

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #24, read and annotate forĀ Speaker and Occasion.
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • label and explain all annotations
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
    • Mrs. Lichocki’s SSR novels must be returned by 6/5!
  • Romeo & Juliet-Performance questions due end of hour! Videos due tomorrow! No exceptions! No excuses!

  • SLOT-Referencing Article of the Week #24, Read and Annotate the text forĀ Connections only.
    • AoW #24 Prisons
    • Highlight textual evidence
    • Label and explain all annotations
      • Text to Text
      • Text to Self
      • Text to World
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Romeo & Juliet-Create Quiz Questions. Due Tuesday end of hour. Film due Wednesday. Performances Friday.

  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 116, paraphrase each quatrain and the rhyming couplet.
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • Romeo & Juliet-Verbal Conference with Mrs. Lichocki about costuming and setting. Research and Script due today by the end of the hour!

Reminder-All of Mrs. Lichocki’s SSR books are due by June 5th! All performances must be filmed by June 3rd!

  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 116, identify literary devices (pun, oxymoron, personification, alliteration, double entendre, etc.)
    • You must highlight textual evidence (examples of literary devices)
    • Explain through annotation what literary devices are being used and how you know this to be true
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes.
  • Romeo & Juliet-Continue Research. Script and Research due tomorrow by the end of the hour!

  • 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
  • Romeo & Juliet-Begin Research Component. Script and Research due Friday by the end of the hour.
    • Remember you must film your skit some time before June 3rd. June 3rd is the day I need to check that I can open your file on my computer! You must either send me the file via email, or have the file saved to a flash drive.
    • Performances are Friday, June 5th
    • LA 2-Extra credit essay due June 5th
    • Honors-Mandatory essay due June 5th

  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 116, do the following:
  • Week 23 SONNET 116
    • Read the sonnet
    • Label the rhyme scheme
    • How many syllables per line?
    • What do you call every four lines of a sonnet? The last two?
    • What other things did you learn about sonnets?
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Romeo & Juliet-Continue working on script. Script and Research due Friday!

  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 18, paraphrase each quatrain. Make sure to use the appropriate heading for each paraphrased section:
    • Quatrain 1-
    • Quatrain 2-
    • Quatrain 3-
    • Quatrain 4-
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Romeo & Juliet-Continue working on script.

  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 18, identify literary devices (pun, oxymoron, personification, alliteration, double entendre, etc.)
    • Highlight textual evidence (examples of literary devices)
    • Explain through annotation what literary devices are being used and how you know this to be true
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Romeo & Juliet-Script

  • SLOT-Referencing Sonnet 18, identify the theme(s) of the sonnet.
    • You must highlight textual evidence
    • Explain how your evidence helped you to figure out the theme
  • SSR-Read novel for 10 minutes
  • Romeo & Juliet-Begin Script