English 8 worked on a figurative language review. We went over

• similes
• metaphors
• personification
• hyperbole
• understatement
• idiom.

We’ll begin applying it on Monday.

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English I Honors students worked on allusions and what they add to a text by looking at the Police song “Wrapped Around Your Finger.”

We’ll be finishing up tomorrow with further analysis.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • work on Quizlet vocab for the Q2 AOW;
  • work on IXL as needed (see Google Calendar for details).
• English I Honors: 
  • re-read “Circe,” “The Land of the Dead,” and “The Sirens and Scilla and Charybdis” (available at Moodle and Google classroom (quiz tomorrow;
  • listen to two more songs by the Police;
  • complete the phrase work by 22 November;
  • work on Quizlet vocab for the Q2 AOW;
  • work on IXL as needed (see Google Calendar for details).