First, I needed to address the major news of the day: the capture of Osama bin Laden. We watched a small portion of President Obama's speech on the subject. Students interested in the entire thing can watch it at a number of different websites, but here's a link:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/05/01/sot.obama.bin.laden.dead.cnn?hpt=T2
We began class by looking at a series of paintings assembled by John Boydell. In the 18th century, he assembled a group of artists and released a folio of prints depicting Shakespeare's most famous plays. For more on John Boydell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boydell
We are finishing our unit on "Romeo and Juliet." Students today will take an exam on the play. Hopefully, they studied using the resources I mentioned in my last blog.
After the test, the students read a comic book version of "Romeo and Juliet." They did this so they can learn how different ideas must be adapted to suit different media. This is one of the reasons that we also watched two movie versions and listened to an audio production of the play.
Finally, students wrote an essay about which version of "Romeo and Juliet" they liked best, and why that version was superior to the other versions. This essay will be due on Wednesday.
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