May 7, 2012 – May 11, 2012 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade Honors English

Monday, May 7^th:

Homework is due today: HOLT HANDBOOK: Revising for Parallelism; pages 461 – 462, exercise 6

Read Act 2, Scenes 4 and 5; reading logs; discuss

Act out Scene 4: the Nurse, Mercutio and Benvolio scene

Assign ROMEO and JULIET ESSAY:

Prompt: Analyze Shakespeare’s metaphorical use of darkness and light  to reveal Romeo’s mood both before meeting Juliet and after.

This essay should be a minimum of three pages in length, typed, double spaced and in appropriate manuscript format.

This essay will be due on Wednesday, May 9^th.

Tuesday, May 8^th:

Briefly go over the CST packet in class.

For homework: HOLT HANDBOOK; Subordinate Clauses; pages 99 – 100; exercise 1; this will be due on Thursday, May 10^th.

Read ROMEO and JULIET; read Act 2, Scenes 5 and 6, and do reading logs.

The ROMEO and JULIET Act 2 Test will be due when we finish reading Act 2.

Wednesday, May 9^th:

The ROMEO and JULIET ESSAY is due today.

Finish reading Act 2 with reading logs

Thursday, May 10^th:

Briefly go over CST packet in class.

For homework: HOLT HANDBOOK; Adjective Clauses; pages 101 – 104; exercises 2 and 3; this will be due on Friday, May 11^th.

Collect and grade Act 2 Test

Friday, May 11^th:

Go over homework in HOLT HANDBOOK; Adjective Clauses; pages 101 – 104; exercises 2 and 4

Read ROMEO and JULIET; Act 3, Scene 1 and do reading log. Act out Act 3, Scene 1.