Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Fifty-First Class Period: Act One of Romeo & Juliet

Students began reading Act One of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. They received a graphic organizer showing the relationships between the characters in the plays two major families: the Montagues and the Capulets.

Homework: Complete prewriting for two body paragraphs of your book report.

Choose one of the following subtopics for each paragraph:

1) a major character trait that the biographer/autobiographer emphasizes

2) memorable anecdotes (short illustrative stories)

3) praise/criticize the biographer/autobiographer's choices for which events to include or exclude from the book or for how thoroughly the biographer/autobiographer chose to cover certain events

4) discuss photos included in the work


Your prewriting for each body paragraph should include a minimum of ten sentences:

Topic sentence (subtopic + viewpoint)

Concrete Detail 1

Two or more sentences of commentary about the first concrete detail

Concrete Detail 2

Two or more sentences of commentary about the second concrete detail

Concrete Detail 3

Two or more sentences of commentary about the third concreted detail


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