Use Sparks Notes to help you research for your Shakespeare "Crash Course". *You can also find a No Fear Shakespeare link on the Sparks Notes webpage for full plays with modern English translations.
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/
Happy researching!!
Monday, May 12, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Virtual Tour / Shakespeare's Globe
Click below to take a virtual tour of Shakespeare's Globe Theater!
Virtual Tour / Shakespeare's Globe
Virtual Tour / Shakespeare's Globe
Sunday, February 9, 2014
"What I'm Reading"
Here is your opportunity to share what you are currently reading for extra credit!! Earn up to 10 points each week just by sharing your thoughts:
Here is your opportunity to share what you are currently reading for extra credit!! Earn up to 10 points each week just by sharing your thoughts:
- make a reading reccomendation
- a personal response to your reading or
- Pose and answer a level 3 question about your reading
- Comment on what your classmates are reading for 1 point each comment! Don't forget to add your name to receive credit.
*Each Reading Response is worth 5 pts. each.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Want to know how to win NaNoWriMo? Click here for the official validation instructions!!
http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-to-win
Way to go, you just climbed the mountain called "A Writer's first Novel". Congratulations! Still writing? If so, don't give up, reach your mountain top!!
http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/how-to-win
Way to go, you just climbed the mountain called "A Writer's first Novel". Congratulations! Still writing? If so, don't give up, reach your mountain top!!
Friday, September 27, 2013
Welcome new 2013-2014 seventh grade students to our English Class Blog!!!!
Here you will find the latest updates to ongoing class projects and upcoming lessons from the classroom and beyond. Feel free to post questions and or comments after each new post.
Next week in class we will be having Reading Workshop on Monday: Learning Target - I can preview a work of fiction.
We will learn how to preview fiction books to see if they will be a good fit for us to read!!! We will call it the Five-finger Preview! 1.Genre 2. Author 3. Cover art 4. Summary 5. Readability
Tuesday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
*This will be based on last weeks workshops on learning styles. Please use all the notes and articles you have used to do this exercise.
Wednesday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
Writing Workshop. You will write a well contructed piece of writing that explains how you learn best.
Thursday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
Writing Workshop. Finishing up any necessary revisions to your writing.
Friday: Learning Target - I can understand how to construct a writing portfolio. I can create and record writing ideas for my portfolio.
We will be introducing how to construct your writing portfolio for class and go over all of the requirements.
Here you will find the latest updates to ongoing class projects and upcoming lessons from the classroom and beyond. Feel free to post questions and or comments after each new post.
Next week in class we will be having Reading Workshop on Monday: Learning Target - I can preview a work of fiction.
We will learn how to preview fiction books to see if they will be a good fit for us to read!!! We will call it the Five-finger Preview! 1.Genre 2. Author 3. Cover art 4. Summary 5. Readability
Tuesday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
*This will be based on last weeks workshops on learning styles. Please use all the notes and articles you have used to do this exercise.
Wednesday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
Writing Workshop. You will write a well contructed piece of writing that explains how you learn best.
Thursday: Learning Target - I can explain how I learn best using evidence from sources.
Writing Workshop. Finishing up any necessary revisions to your writing.
Friday: Learning Target - I can understand how to construct a writing portfolio. I can create and record writing ideas for my portfolio.
We will be introducing how to construct your writing portfolio for class and go over all of the requirements.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Collaborative Narrative, English Final
Now that you are in a writing group you will write the first part of your story based on the genre you have chosen. Next, a writing partner will take over the second stage and pick up after you have finished the exposition. They will write the rising action to your story and then pass to a new writing partner who will write the climax and so on. Remember your story will need to include each of the 5 elements to a short story, plot, character, conflict, theme, and setting. Have fun!!!
Once you have story composed for each person in the group you will chose, as a group, which one is the best and should be the one story you all work on to make better.
Now that you are in a writing group you will write the first part of your story based on the genre you have chosen. Next, a writing partner will take over the second stage and pick up after you have finished the exposition. They will write the rising action to your story and then pass to a new writing partner who will write the climax and so on. Remember your story will need to include each of the 5 elements to a short story, plot, character, conflict, theme, and setting. Have fun!!!
Once you have story composed for each person in the group you will chose, as a group, which one is the best and should be the one story you all work on to make better.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Shakespeare Unit: Intoducing Twelfth Night
This week we will use our Google ninja skills to research facts about Shakespeare's life, the Globe Theater, and Elizabethan England. You will conduct your research in teams of four. The following day you will use those interesting discoveries to compete in "The Circle of Knowledge Game".
Here is a look at the lesson we will be learning today about language in Shakespeare's time, more specifically insults!! This should be fun ;) Here is the link to the Ted-Ed video we will be watching http://ed.ted.com/lessons/insults-by-shakespeare#watch We will then flex our own language skills with a fun mixing/matching page with insults taken directly from the play Twelfth Night.
*Just added to the classroom:
"Wall of Shame" a place to write one Shakespearean insult a day per class ;) Come and have a look!
QR scan codes on each group of desks to stay updated on the class blog. Download a QRL scanner to your smartphone today to give it a try!!
This week (May 6-10) we will be watching Twelfth Night the movie. Make sure you still have your character sheets to follow your character throughout the movie.
Porfolios were due today, Monday May 6th.
Wednesday - Today you will be annotating your Emotional EKG by using the Twelfth Night text and Spark Notes click on the link. Complete your EKG with a partner!
Wednseday 5/22 - Finishing draft of Twelfth Night portfolio paper. Revising with a parner and begin typing final. Work on for H.W., due tomrorrow in class.
5/28 This week we are taking scenes from Twelfth Night and learning them with a group. Each person will asume a character and learn the lines in order to perform a dramatic reading for their class next week in the auditorium.
Here is a look at the lesson we will be learning today about language in Shakespeare's time, more specifically insults!! This should be fun ;) Here is the link to the Ted-Ed video we will be watching http://ed.ted.com/lessons/insults-by-shakespeare#watch We will then flex our own language skills with a fun mixing/matching page with insults taken directly from the play Twelfth Night.
*Just added to the classroom:
"Wall of Shame" a place to write one Shakespearean insult a day per class ;) Come and have a look!
QR scan codes on each group of desks to stay updated on the class blog. Download a QRL scanner to your smartphone today to give it a try!!
This week (May 6-10) we will be watching Twelfth Night the movie. Make sure you still have your character sheets to follow your character throughout the movie.
Porfolios were due today, Monday May 6th.
Wednesday - Today you will be annotating your Emotional EKG by using the Twelfth Night text and Spark Notes click on the link. Complete your EKG with a partner!
Wednseday 5/22 - Finishing draft of Twelfth Night portfolio paper. Revising with a parner and begin typing final. Work on for H.W., due tomrorrow in class.
5/28 This week we are taking scenes from Twelfth Night and learning them with a group. Each person will asume a character and learn the lines in order to perform a dramatic reading for their class next week in the auditorium.
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