English I Honors students skipped some lessons — killed the sacred metrical cow — and moved ahead to the Bard. Billy. Shakespeare. We finished by getting ready for the more difficult sonnet 29 by creating some insane sentences: After the championship...
English I Honors students looked at their first formal poetic form, the villanelle. We came up with a few rules for villanelles after looking at three of them, including a poem we’d already explored. English 8 students read chapter 6 of Nightjohn and began...
One of my favorite bike rides while I lived in Poland was a trip to Zab, which means “tooth.” The ride began in the small village in which I lived and climbed to the highest village in Poland, Zab. It was a 72 km ride (44 miles) with 664.5 meters of...
English I Honors students finished up Collins’s “Forgetfulness,” and learned a little something more at the end of the class. The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the...
English 8 students continued working with Nightjohn, working through chapter five, the final long chapter. English I Honors students began looking at Billy Collins’s “The Lanyard,” going over the homework and discovering a few new things. Afterward,...
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