English I Honors students worked on their first exposure to Shakespeare in class, reading "Sonnet 29" in preparation for our new unit on Romeo and Juliet. When in disgrace with fortune and men's...
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Finishing Projects
As with yesterday, we worked on projects today, with all classes finishing up (or about to finish up) major end-of-quarter projects today. English I Honors students will need to turn in their poetry...
Algernon/Outsiders Essay Turn-in
Type your paragraph into Word. Document title: Save your document as "lastname_firstname." In other words "jones_sabrina" but not "sabrina_jones." Document location: Save your document into the...
Project Work
All classes worked on their projects in class. See previous posts below for more information.
Meter and Projects
English I Honors students finished up our whirlwind overview of meter in poetry before taking some time to work on their poetry projects. I've updated the rubric, specifically regarding the analysis...
Metrical Feet and Review
First period (English 8 Strategies) didn't have class due to the Donaldson Career Center visit, so during fifth period (also English 8 Strategies) we just did some review work. English I Honors...
Villanelles and Linking Verbs
English I Honors students finished up working with villanelles in anticipation of writing a much more challenging poem, a sonnet, in a couple of weeks. Afterward, we returned to the question of...
Presentations and Quote Integration Continued
English 8 Strategies students continued with yesterday's work of quote integration. We came up with some good examples of effective quote integration when we did our individual practice today: For...
Integrating Quotes and Practicing Projects
English 8 Strategies began the sometimes-tricky art of integrating quotes from a document into one's own writing. We had an introduction and a bit of practice, but tomorrow, thought it's Wednesday...
Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments
English 8 Strategies students had a discussion in the form of a Socratic seminar about topics related to our final project for the quarter, analytic paragraphs about the selections they are reading...
Tone and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors continued with tone, examining Collins's "The Lanyard." To help students understand the poem, we looked at a public reading of the poem Collins gave. English 8 Strategies began...
Verb Phrases and Tone
English I Honors began a couple of days working with tone in writing, specifically in poetry. We began by saying the same sentence in various tones of voice in order to see what "tone" means in...
