Good job on the paragraph today. Thanks to all the students who read books on the weekend as the SMUS reads competition is heating up!! The official record says that the grade 9s are two books ahead of the grade 10s but I see at least 15 forms in our bucket so we are unofficially ahead now.
But . . . I see my 9s next period and they have three days on gradeout to read . . . the gauntlet has been thrown. Read my pretties, read.
Homework: Read all of Act 4. What is the role of Act 4 in terms of plot? Most of this act is plot based on Juliet's fake death. However, read her speech on page 63 and notice the change in her speech, particularly all of the morbid, frightening imagery: chapless skulls, rekky shanks, rattling bones of dead men!! What has gotten into her? Be prepared to discuss it next class.
We'll read Act 5, watch a film version and then begin our essays.
Yay.
