Seminars and Commas

by | Apr 23, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Fourth period English I Honors students continued with the third writing assignment for the Lord of the Flies unit with part two of a Socratic Seminar. Yesterday’s discussion is available here. Today’s discussion is available here. Sixth period English I...

Allegories and Works Cited

by | Apr 10, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

In first and fourth periods today, they worked on identifying symbols in Lord of the Flies after taking the phrases test. Today second and seventh periods worked on their work cited paper and they also took some notes on how to do a work cited paper on the...

Hero Journey and Catch-up

by | Mar 3, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods compared their work with an independent summary of The Hero with a Thousand Faces in order to assess their accuracy. They began afterward working to apply Campbell’s ideas to films: Wizard of Oz Star Wars Lion King Harry Potter Lord of...
Comma Completion and Paraphrasing

Comma Completion and Paraphrasing

by | Feb 26, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods continued with their paraphrases of excerpts of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. It’s a challenge, for passages read like this: Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom,...

Heroes and Commas

by | Feb 25, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

Today of first and fourth periods we started the group work with The Hero with A Thousand Faces. We’re trying to look at the meaning of the text and how it relates to The Odyssey. We’ve started by paraphrasing the passage we have and then we’ll be...