9th Grade - We reversed the strategy used earlier in the week, in which we read and then watched the same scenes from the 1968 film version of "Romeo and Juliet." This time, students watched the film version of Act 2 Scene 3 and 4 to get a clearer idea of the plot before reading. Ideally, having seen some of the story before attempted to decipher the Shakespearean English provides students with a clearer image of what they should be able to pull from the story.
10th Grade - We discussed the results of the memory test that the students took yesterday, and looked at some questions involving memory - for example, students were asked to theorize as to why they scored better on some parts of the memory test that others.
We watched a short video about "Patient HM," an epilectic from the 1950s whose brain surgery (and subsequent memory damage) was the main basis for the study and understanding of human memory systems. The class them moved on from this to a few short articles on memory and learning, and we discussed how to apply these strategies to student's own learning.
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