Welcome, welcome, welcome! It's a brand new week and the final week before Spring Break! For the duration of this week, continue to check the blog, but there will be no work during Spring Break.
Here is the link to the No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet online with the side-by-side original text and modern translation: CLICK HERE
Monday - Writer's Notebook: "If you were Friar Lawrence and couldn’t deliver your instructions to Romeo, what alternative courses of actions could you take? Explain what you would have done. Write this as an explanatory response."
Tuesday - Today, we will finish reading Romeo and Juliet!
Wednesday - Friday: Film Study
Friday Addendum - To turn in your film analysis, please cut and paste it into the Writer's Notebook document you have already shared with me. It should begin on a new page and be clearly labeled "Film Analysis". If you printed the handout and hand wrote it, then take pics of it and email it to me. I prefer the Google doc so that I am not receiving 150 emails with pics.
At a department meeting today, we are sorting out what the grading policy (released yesterday by the County) means for our individual classes. I will let you know what more information I discover today and how we will move forward with the rest of the semester.
Here is the link to the No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet online with the side-by-side original text and modern translation: CLICK HERE
Monday - Writer's Notebook: "If you were Friar Lawrence and couldn’t deliver your instructions to Romeo, what alternative courses of actions could you take? Explain what you would have done. Write this as an explanatory response."
- Read Act 5, Scenes 3 of R&J (Watch video here: LINK)
- Answer study guide questions
Tuesday - Today, we will finish reading Romeo and Juliet!
- Finish reading Act 5, Scene 3 of R&J (Watch video here: LINK)
- Finish completing your study guides
Wednesday - Friday: Film Study
- For the next three days, you should pick a film version of Romeo and Juliet and watch it. After the film, download the worksheet from '9th - Resources.' Here are your options:
- Director Franco Zepphirelli's version from 1968 is a classic and many English teachers' favorite (It is in color and beautifully filmed, despite its age). It is available for free on something called PlutoTV, which I found on my Roku. It's also available for rent.
- Director Baz Luhrman's version from 1996 is my favorite. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in a modern adaptation that still uses the original language. It's a beautiful, strange movie (the directorial style is very unique) and the soundtrack is fantastic (I'm biased as I was a teenager when it came out and it was in regular rotation in my car's CD player). It is currently available for free on Starz, if you have it. It's also available for rent for $2.99 from multiple sources.
- Director Carlo Carlei's version from 2013 stars Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth (Hailee Steinfeld was born in 1996, when Leo's version came out - Whoa!). It is available for free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBDcDr4XWpY
Friday Addendum - To turn in your film analysis, please cut and paste it into the Writer's Notebook document you have already shared with me. It should begin on a new page and be clearly labeled "Film Analysis". If you printed the handout and hand wrote it, then take pics of it and email it to me. I prefer the Google doc so that I am not receiving 150 emails with pics.
At a department meeting today, we are sorting out what the grading policy (released yesterday by the County) means for our individual classes. I will let you know what more information I discover today and how we will move forward with the rest of the semester.