English 8 students finished working with connotation in Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.” Sixth period didn’t quite finish as much as fifth period due to a fire drill, so we’ll have to catch up tomorrow.

English I Honors finished up clauses to the great sadness of everyone. “Oh, Mr. Scott,” they begged, “can’t we do more clauses? Can’t you just invent something for us?” Some students were unable to carry on with class because they were so very distraught over the idea of leaving clauses behind for good, but I reassured them that we would be revisiting and applying the topic throughout the rest of the year.

Homework

• English 8: 
  • work on figurative language practice on Moodle as necessary;
  • work on figurative language practice and vocab work on IXL as necessary;
  • work on AOW vocab on Quizlet as necessary.
• English I Honors: 
  • work on IXL as needed;
  • work on one pager (Google Classroom) as needed;
  • work on AOW vocab on Quizlet as necessary;
  • practice subordinate clause work on either IXL, Quizlet, or Moodle as needed;
  • diagram these sentences by tomorrow:
    • 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.

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.