English I Honors students worked on diagramming (just a bit) and adverb clauses (just a bit as well):

English 8 students began a little final work on poetry, looking at the importance of connotation in “Those Winter Sundays.”

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:
    • After I had learned about subordinate clauses, I felt so fulfilled.
    • We decided to talk about subordinate clauses as we walked on the beach.
    • I never really understood people who don’t like sentence diagramming, although I can understand how people might prefer subordinate clauses work.
  • diagram these sentences by Friday:
    • I gave the dog eating Jello on the sofa a swat on the backside with a rolled-up newspaper.
    • Running to the classroom, I tripped on someone’s foot and fell flat on my face.
    • We never understood the man sitting under the black umbrella.