AOW, Geography, and Clauses

AOW, Geography, and Clauses

We began today going over the AOW that I handed back today. We looked specifically at the following words: concede redolent fraught exclave utopic In addition, we went over a little geography to show how such background knowledge could have helped students figure out...
AOW and Workshop

AOW and Workshop

Students today reviewed the AOW marking from the last article. By this time, students should be getting nothing As and Bs on that assignment — it’s like a basketball player shooting free throws. We then worked on our “Decoration Day”...
Connections

Connections

We began today by going over the latest article of the week, looking at a complete of connections that I wanted students to make within the text. Afterward, we returned to the work of tracking down some of the ways that Shakespeare has characters start echoing each...
Tenor and Vehicle

Tenor and Vehicle

We began by looking at the first question for the new article of the week. Early in the piece, there is a challenging sentence that we went over: I have become consumed with an alarming possibility: that neither the polls nor the actual outcome of the election really...