We finished reading Act 1, Scene 1 today and identified different types of conflict and made thematic connections in your dialectical journals.
After a short vocabulary review, we read the opening salvo in R&J between the Capulets and the Montagues. We learned:
-Shakespeare liked to make dirty jokes -even in a very short scene, you can make thematic statements about human behavior. We grappled with Sonnet 130 and the prologue to Romeo and Juliet today. See the class folder for make up assignments.
Today we used rubrics to grade sample paragraphs. We talked about topic sentences, transition words, relevant evidence, and using good commentary to explain your evidence.
You worked in groups to today to:
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