English 8 had review of participles before tomorrow’s test, which will include information about participles.

English I Honors worked on parsing long Shakespearian sentences. We worked on sonnet 29:

We began by looking at a long sentence that has syntactical similarities to the poem:

When I, feeling tired and spent from a day of working with fourteen-year-olds, go home with a heavy step, I sit and, finally able to relax, have a cup of coffee.

Then we turned our attention to the poem itself.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

The results revealed a few patterns.

We’ll work on this tomorrow after the test.

Homework

• English 8: prepare for the test tomorrow.
• English I Honors: 
  • look through the third set of four lines to determine if there’s any sort of pattern like the one we saw in the first two four-line chunks (yes, there’s a name for these chunks, but I haven’t given you that information);
  • prepare for the quarter vocabulary test tomorrow.