English 8 students took a brief look at subordinate clauses as we build skills to parse the difficult writing we’re finding in Frederick Douglass’s autobiography.

Today was just general practice; tomorrow, we’ll be applying it to another excerpt from Douglass’s biography.

English I Honors students worked on parallel structure again for just a bit, this time looking at how we’ll be applying it for the rest of the year — much simpler than how we’ve been applying it to Shakespeare.

We also turned in our “Decoration Day” paragraphs and learned how to assess them.

Homework

• English 8: complete through 12 on the subordinate clause practice (from today).
• English I Honors: 
  • turn in your “Decoration Day” paragraphs (as needed);
  • prepare for the test tomorrow by reviewing phrases on IXL (as needed);
  • prepare for the test tomorrow by reviewing material covered during RJ act 3.