Project and Metaphors

Project and Metaphors

English I students looked at metaphors closely, winding up the poetry unit. Today we focused on the function of metaphors: the vehicle/source always adds some meaning to the tenor/target. Students worked to determine these three things in a passage from As You Like...

Theme and Sonnets

English I Honors students finished with the second sonnet (130), learning about the tonal shift and lyric moment that exists in the sonnets’ rhyming couplet. Afterward, students had the final 15 minutes to relax and solve logic puzzles, exercising their...
Sonnets and Theme

Sonnets and Theme

English I Honors today put together the last pieces of the sonnet puzzle, adding another tool to their “how do I interpret Shakespeare” toolkit: Then, knowing how each quatrain works, they set out on another sonnet, the famous 130: English 8 students began...