Today is a grey day, and you can meet with me during Zoom office hours 12:50 and 1:50 pm. Check Canvas for the link to Zoom.

Starting with a Zoom meeting. First period will meet at 10:10 am, and second period at 11:20. Links are posted on the Canvas syllabus.
Discussion of soliloquies in Romeo and Juliet;
We will also watch a few versions of these performed.
Presenting summer reading for this year.
HW: Watching a film version of the play for our next class.

No Zoom meeting today.
Today you should watch Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet! I'm posting two options for you:
1. The musical, more contemporary Baz Luhrmann version starring Claire Daines and Leonardo DiCapreo, can be accessed on this google drive link.
2. The more traditional, BBC version featuring Prof. Snape and Hans Gruber actor Alan Rickman as Tybalt, is on this google drive link.
3. These are large files. Depending on the device you're accessing the movie with, you may have to download the file, watch, and then delete the file.

Starting with a Zoom meeting. Check the syllabus on Canvas for a link.
Q&A on the film version of Romeo and Juliet.
Reviewing directions for our last assignment (advice to next year’s freshmen English class).
HW: Record and upload a video of yourself, sharing advice on a) surviving Mr. Easton’s English class; b) surviving life at New Trier High School, and; c) how to get along during Covid-lockdown. NOTE: You can drop the video files to the shared Google folder, linked from the Canavas syllabus.

Official last day of school.
Individual conferences with students, but only as required (for missing or incomplete work)