English 8 students worked on figurative language practice. We did some online practice while I sat with each student individually to assess students’ general ability to interpret figurative language that isn’t isolated but instead in a poem.

English I Honors students went over clauses today, specifically independent clauses and adjectival subordinate clauses. We’ll continue with adverb and noun clauses tomorrow.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • work on figurative language practice on Moodle as necessary;
  • work on IXL as necessary;
  • work on Quizlet as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • work on IXL as needed;
  • work on one pager (Google Classroom) as needed;
  • work on Quizlet as necessary;
  • determine the subordinate clauses in these sentences:
    • The dog that bit my brother was put down yesterday.
    • The brother who bit my dog was grounded yesterday.
    • I never really understood people who go out for sports which they cannot play.
  • diagram these sentences by Wednesday:
    • The dog on the sofa on the other side of the room ate a bowl of cereal.
    • The picture over the fireplace in the living room is a picture of my grandmother’s dog.
    • The dog in the picture bit my brother on his shin.

Class Notes

Notes for the day's classes are available here.

Please note that this is a composite file including notes from all classes, though occasionally it might only be one or two classes. I don't differentiate in the file; that is up to you to do.