English 8 students worked on No Red Ink practice with Schaffer paragraphs, determining the claim, evidence, and reasoning (as NRI calls the TS, CD, and CM). We’ll have a little more review on it this Monday before we have a small test on the topic Tuesday.

English I students worked on parsing long sentences like the ones that begin “The Cask of Amontillado.”

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

We went over three elements of the text that make it a little confusing:

• inversions
• interrupters
• pronoun/antecedent ambiguity

We didn’t quite finish everything.

Fourth period’s notes

We’ll do a little more work on it Monday.

Fifth period’s notes

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: read “The Cask of Amontillado“