Romeo & Juliet Unit 2/28- 4/1

2/28- Check out Romeo & Juliet, Learn about Shakespeare
3/1 -- Begin reading Romeo and Juliet
3/2 --Act 1
3/3 -- Act 1 Writing: How do your parents compare to the Capulets and Montagues?
3/4 -- Act 1 Writing: After reading Act 1, use textual to predict what will happen in the rest of the play?
3/7 -- Test on Act 1
3/8 -- Read Act 2
3/9 -- Read Act 2 Writing: Using Shakespeare's language, write a letter from one character to another?
3/10 -- Read Act 2
3/11 -- Finish Act 2, Introduce Romeo & Juliet Final Project due April 1st (No Fooling!)
3/14 -- Act 2 test, Preread Act 3 for homework
3/15 -- Sword fighting! Act 3 Write: a swordfighting scene
3/16 -- Read Act 3
3/17 -- Act 3 Test
3/18 -- Begin reading Act 4 Write: Character motivation paragraph Why does the character do what they do?
3/21-- Read Act 4
3/22 -- Act 4
3/23 -- Test on Act 4
3/24 -- Begin Act 5
3/25 -- Read Act 5
3/28 -- Read Act 5
3/29 --Test on R & J, Class debate -- Who is most responsible for Romeo & Juliet's death?
3/30 -- Day to work on projects
3/31 -- Timed essay -- Who is most responsible for Romeo & Juliet's death?
4/1 -- Presentation of Romeo and Juliet projects, Project papers due

2/14-2/18

Monday 2/14 Perform famous poems and plan timed essays about those poems
Tuesday 2/15 Timed essay on famous poems
Wednesday 2/16 Poetry test
Thursday 2/17 Poetry slam in class
Friday 2/18 Greek roots test and poetry workshop

Greek roots test for 2/18

Please find the entire Greek roots list. From doc to gastr will be tested February 19.

Poetry 1/25-2/18

Overview of the poetry unit: Students will read, write analytically about, and write their own creative poetry. They will also perform famous poetry and their own.

1/25 -- What is poetry? How to write a poetry precis based on SOAPStone
1/26 -1/27 Alliteration, consonance, and assonance
            Hard rhyme and off rhyme
1/28 Diction, denotation, and connotation
1/31 Metaphors --- Similes, analogies, personification, implied metaphor
2/1 Found poems and concrete versus abstract poems using imagery
2/2 Aeries website registration, SOAPStone precis of the poem they selected, begin practice of poem recitation
2/3 Onomatopoeia and phonetic intensives
2/4 Watch and write poetry on Def Poetry Jam
2/7 Sonnets and iambic pentameter
2/8 Narrative poems
2/9 Sestina/ round poems
2/10 Rhythm and tempo
2/11 Writing lyrics
2/ 14 Reciting selected poem
2/15 Timed essay test on their poem
2/16 Multiple-choice test on poetry and poetry terms
2/17 In class poetry slam competition
2/18 Whole school poetry slam in the Little Theater at lunch

Week of 11/29-12/3

We are writing and revising Letters about Literature to enter in the national contest.

11/29 Begin letters
11/30 Get new set of Greek roots to be tested 12/16
12/1 Type letters
12/2 Letter revision
12/3 Finish and prepare to send letters

11/16

Prize quiz on roots

Test on 2nd set of Greek roots

Wins

11/15

Prize quiz on Greek roots for test 11/16.

Begin planning Of Mice and Men essay.