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Further “Heart” Annotations and the Final Sonnet
English 8 students continued with "The Tell-Tale Heart," reaching the climax of the story: when the narrator commits the awful dead. We continued marking the text for use of repetition, specifically...
Parts of Speech and Sonnets
English 8 unexpectedly moved Friday to Tuesday: due to the number of absent students (nine students absent out of thirty) in seventh period (now meeting during fourth period) , we elected to hold...
Tell-Tale Heart and Sonnets
English 8 students worked on their Halloween story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." We made it through the first four paragraphs: we're working on annotations and a summary, so it takes a bit of time to go...
Figurative Language, Meter, and Poe Writing
English I students finished up the work on figurative language, examining metaphors, similies, personification, hyperbole, and idioms to determine the tenor and the vehicle. We then went over meter...
Quarter 1 Benchmark Testing and the Effects
All students began the day with the first benchmark of the quarter. We'll go over the results at some point next week, but since the test is proprietary, we won't be able to look at or discuss the...
Villanelle and Summary
English I students worked on "One Art," finishing up the somewhat challenging poem and determining: the initial tone the location of the tonal shift the meaning of the lyric moment Afterward, we...
Homework Only
We're only going over homework today. It's Friday -- too tired to do much else.
Tonal Shift and Central Idea
English I students finished up "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," realizing that despite it's apparent difficulty, it's really a rather straightforward poem. Afterward, we used "Good Night"...
Tone and a New Unit
English I students continued with tone, returning to "The Lanyard" to notice how the poet carefully built the humor: We'll do some more tone work tomorrow, adding a new element to explain that...
Test and Final Writing
English I students had their parts of speech test. English 8 students worked on their final drafts of their technology arguments. [gallery type="slideshow" link="file" size="medium"...
Writing, Poetry, and Review
English I students had a final bit of in-class practice with parts of speech identification before tomorrow's test. Afterward, we went over "The Lanyard," covering first the allusion to Proust's ...