English I students today continued with the final stages of our poetry unit, looking at Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” while refreshing an old term (inversion) and adding a new one (syntax).

English 8 students began an incredibly short Halloween unit that will focus on irony, so we did a quick review of irony with a gallery walk.

It’s always a fun activity: the kids move around the room, looking at various images or texts and discuss them with a particular end in mind. Today, for example, they were to determine how each image was ironic.

“Don’t just explain what’s going on in the picture,” I clarified after we’d done a quick review of what irony is. “If you don’t explain the expectation and how that expectation was defied, you haven’t explained irony.”

Homework

• English 8: continue reading your book for the independent reading assignment.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete the No Red Ink work for identifying prepositional phrases and determining their grammatical function;
  • continue reading your book for the independent reading assignment.