English 8 students had their test on parts of speech. Afterward, students worked on their “Inside Out” memoir and the accompanying Somebody Wanted But So engagement. Students who did not finish it in class need to complete the work at home by the time we get back to class Monday.

English I students worked on “Wrapped Around Your Finger,” learning a little about the difference between direct and oblique allusions and the relative softness (for lack of a better term) of oblique allusions: we can’t always be sure that something is an allusion.

We’ll be finishing up the Odyssey when we get back.

Homework

• English 8: complete “Inside Out” and the accompanying Somebody Wanted But So work by Monday (if you did your work in class today, you should have little to nothing to complete).
• English I Honors: 
  • complete any of the phrase work you did not complete (after Monday, you will not be able to make up any of that work);
  • work on comprehension questions for the Odyssey:
    • “Lotus Eaters” and “Cyclops” Excerpts Comprehension Questions
    • “Sirens” and “Scylla and Charybdis” Excerpts Comprehension Questions
  • read the second part of the Odyssey.