English 8 students worked on their major writing project for the quarter, which they will be completing this week. Today they collaborated on potential reasons to back up their chosen topics. We have a load of evidence already outlined, and tomorrow we’ll begin looking at what evidence matches which reasons.

English I students continued with the parts of speech review focusing on verbs today and active/passive voice before moving on to “Those Winter Sundays” as part of our poetry unit. We’re focusing on the poem’s use of connotations to create its deeper meaning.

Homework

• English 8: complete inference practice 2 and turn it in (Google Classroom)
• English I Honors: 
  • analyze the differences we annotated in class to determine the connotation of those words (see marking above)
  • make sure you’re caught up with the parts of speech work:
    • Identifying Indefinite Pronouns
    • Indefinite Pronoun or Adjective?
    • Active and Passive Post Assessment(Do not do this until instructed)
    • Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases (No Red Ink)