9th Grade - We finished the 1996 version of "Romeo to Juliet" to start, and had a brief discussion over some of the changes bade between the 1968 film and what the class just completed. There are scenes in each play that are eliminated, scenes that are extended, or events that play out slightly differently, which are at the director's discretion.
After watching the conclusion, students were assigned the final writing assignment for "Romeo and Juliet." The details of this assingment are under "ASSIGNMENTS AND PROJECTS" on this blog (visible in the top right-hand quandrant of the main screen).
10th Grade - We started reading A Separate Peace in class, and read through Chapter 1 as a full group. The rationale behind this is that I want to make sure that all students are very clearly on the same page as we start the novel. I explained that many times the first few chapters in a book may not have a clear conflict, and are used to develop the setting and preliminary characterization (this is clearly the case with this novel).
After reading Chapter 1, we did a short activity based around descriptive writing and establishing a setting. Students had to write down a few sites in Jackson, WY, on a piece of scratch paper, which were then put into a hat. Each student would randomly pull out a site, and have to describe how to get there from the school without using any proper nouns, or describing the final destination (i.e. no street names, business names, etc). This activity requires that students think of a geographic area in terms of descriptive landmarks and detail.
Homework - Read Chapter 2.
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