English 8 students finished working on effective readers’ skills and chapter three from Nightjohn. We’ll be moving on to the next chapter tomorrow after we debrief today’s work.

English I Honors students began our new unit, which focuses on poetry. We started with “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry.”

Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry

Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned to pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.

There came a moment that you couldn’t tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

We’ll be looking at other poems through out the next weeks, applying the same process to increasingly difficult work.

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: complete the paragraph on irony or symbolism analyzing “The Necklace” or “The Gift of the Magi.”