We continued to watch and read Romeo and Juliet today – if you were absent, please pick up a copy of the multiple choice questions from my room.

Hey y’all, would you help me get the word out on this week’s extra credit movie, because I haven’t done a good job of publicizing it?

We’re going to watch the 2013 version of Romeo and Juliet in its entirety as a way of helping to solidify our understanding of the plot. It will be worth the equivalent of 10 points on a quiz (although I might attach it to a different kind of assignment).

I think coming to this, if you can, would be a good way to prepare for the R&J section of the final.

If you missed any of our Romeo and Juliet readings, please come pick up a copy from my room. We also started looking at sonnets – here is that PowerPoint (Sonnet Introduction).

Happy weekend! We spent half of today reviewing for your grammar exam as a class, and for the other half, students had a chance to create their study guides with their groups.

I told first period that if you want, you can come ask me questions at 7:25 on Monday. For sixth and seventh periods, you can come review with me during lunch.

Today we did a review of the objectives that will be over your grammar exam (Skill Review for Grammar Exam). I told you that I would like for you to collaborate in groups of up to five using Google Docs to create a study guide to help you prepare. We’ll keep talking about this and reviewing in class tomorrow.

No film tomorrow, but we will have Shakespeare in Love next Friday!

Hello, students –

I’m hoping that you have recovered from the excitement of the past two days of testing. I’m going to talk to you tomorrow in class, but I wanted to give you a little more lead time on something important coming up.

On Monday, May 8 (that’s this upcoming Monday), we will have a comprehensive grammar exam. It’s going to be a review of everything grammar-related that we have done this year. This assessment will not only tell you what you need to study for the final exam but also should indicate how prepared for Pre-AP English 2 you are.

I’m going to give you all of tomorrow in class for working on a study guide, but I feel confident that most of you are already well-prepared. It won’t be a tricky test, and I think a lot of the questions (which might have seemed difficult six months ago) will now feel pretty easy.

We’ll talk more tomorrow, but for now, you might want to start reviewing the grammar section of the website.

We had a thrilling day of taking vocabulary and grammar quizzes today! 😉

I won’t see you on Tuesday or Wednesday because of STAAR testing, so good luck! We’ll get back to Romeo and Juliet on Thursday. 🙂

Today we practiced writing some sentences with different kinds of dependent clauses. If you didn’t finish (or you weren’t here), please complete this assignment over the weekend as a way of preparing for your quiz on Monday.

On a sheet of notebook paper, write:

• 5 sentences with a noun dependent clause – underline the dependent clause, and after it, put in parentheses a noun that could replace the dependent clause and still allow the sentence to make sense.
• 5 sentences with an adjective dependent clause – underline the dependent clause and draw an arrow to the noun or pronoun it modifies.
• 5 sentences with an adverb dependent clause – underline the dependent clause and draw an arrow to the word or phrase it modifies.

Your sentences must all be about the same theme (ice cream, dinosaurs, etc.).

We had a reading, discussion, and viewing of the parts of Romeo and Juliet in which Paris asks Lord Capulet for permission to marry Juliet, and Lady Capulet conveys that information to her daughter (Romeo and Juliet Annotation and Questions – Act 1 Scenes ii and iii). After that, we reviewed (in some more depth) the different kinds of dependent clauses (ADJECTIVE CLAUSE explanation sheet   THE ADVERB CLAUSE-explanation ’10[1]    THE NOUN CLAUSE–explanation sheet[1]. Eng 1B), which will appear on your quiz on Monday, so study up! 🙂

We began today by going over the second list of Romeo and Juliet vocabulary words – we’ll have a quiz on Monday, but we won’t have an extra credit film this Friday (so make sure you study!).

Then we read, discussed, and watched part of the second scene from Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet Annotation and Questions – Act 1 Scene ii).