English 10

Both classes watched "Warm Bodies", a zombie adaptation to "Romeo and Juliet". Blocks 1/2 class wrote our "Romeo and Juliet" test yesterday.

I hope you enjoyed the follies! Have a fantastic holiday!

English 10: Blocks 5/6

During the first part of class, we watched John Greene's "Crash Course on Romeo and Juliet", we played a Jeopardy review game for R&J, and we went down to the theatre to watch the Drama Department's Christmas performance. During the second part of class, we had our "Romeo and Juliet" final tests and started watching the movie "Warm Bodies" (a zombie interpretation of R&J).

See you on Friday!

Reminders:

• R&J Creative Projects due!

English 8

I won't see you until after the holidays Grade 8's so have a good time!

Over the past few days, we spent some time working on our creative assignments for The Giver, we read up to Chapter 19, and we started a visual illustration of the Annex Room from the book. You will not have anymore class time to work on your creative assignment for The Giver; make sure to either finish it this week, or you will have to do it over the holidays.

Reminders:

• The Giver Creative Assignments: due Tuesday, January 6, 2014. 

Enlgish 10

Final Test for "Romeo and Juliet"!

Blocks 5/6: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014

Blocks 1/2: Thursday, Dec.18, 2014

Things you can us to study:

• Notes on Shakespeare and Shakespearean Tragedy
• Review Act/Scene questions

English 10

Blocks 1/2

We completed questions for the final scene of R&J and watched the Baz Lurhmann version of the play. I hope you are enjoyong it!!! I am going to be doing an important lesson on Shakespearean tragedy tomorrow, so make sure to get the notes if you're not there.

Reminders:

• Act Four/Five Quiz: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014
• R&J Test: Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014
• R&J Projects: Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014

Blocks 5/6

We completed questions for the final scene of R&J and watched the Baz Lurhmann version of the play. I hope you are enjoying it!!! I am going to be doing an important lesson on Shakespearean tragedy tomorrow, so make sure to get the notes if you're not there.

Reminders:

• Act Four/Five Quiz: Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014
• R&J Test: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014
• R&J Projects: Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014

English 8

Only one more week to go Grade 8's!

Silent Reading
We completed questions for Chapters 13 and 14 from The Giver and then proceeded to read Chapters 15 and 16. At the end of class, we did an activity/worksheet on vocabulary.

Reminders:

• Chapter 13/14 questions for The Giver: due next class
• I am still missing some Newsletters! Please check the board for missing assignments

English 10

Blocks 1/2

We started off the morning with an open-book grammar quiz and then proceeded to watch Mia, Miranda and Jade's performance of Act One Scene Three. They did a fantastic job! We also went over questions and almost finished the final scene of "Romeo and Juliet".

Reminders:

• R&J Test: Thursday, Dec.11, 2014
• R&J Creative Projects: Thursday, Dec.11, 2014

Blocks 5/6

We finished the final scene of "Romeo and Juliet" and continued watching the Leonardo DiCaprio version of the play.

Reminders:

• R&J Test: Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014
• R&J Creative Projects: Thursday, Dec.10, 2014