Poetry and Point of View

Poetry and Point of View

English 8 students went through the first entry in the fictional progress reports of Flowers for Algernon. We made some inferences about the narrator, about the additional characters, and about the first-person point of view. English I students finished the poem...
Parsing Continued and Test Prep

Parsing Continued and Test Prep

English I students finished up going over the three tricks for parsing tricky passages: We looked a little more closely at the second method (looking for interrupters) in conjunction with the third method (clear up pronoun/antecedent ambiguity). It can lead to new...
Parsing and No Red Ink

Parsing and No Red Ink

English 8 students worked on No Red Ink practice with Schaffer paragraphs, determining the claim, evidence, and reasoning (as NRI calls the TS, CD, and CM). We’ll have a little more review on it this Monday before we have a small test on the topic Tuesday....