English I Honors finished working with “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” We concluded with the observations borne out in the poem: Poetry is distilled language; we have to add back in what the poet distilled out. Poetry works on...
English 8 worked on the argument in Nightjohn. John makes a claim and backs it up with evidence to which Mammy makes a counterclaim. John then makes a rebuttal. Students worked groups to tease this all out of the text. English I Honors students took a look at a...
English I Honors students finished up their look at “Those Winter Sundays,” examining the poet’s use of connotation. English 8 did their first-quarter inference work. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: work on your double-blind...
English I Honors students worked on Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” as we finish up looking at tone, tonal shift, and the lyric moment. English 8 students worked on completing Nightjohn and applying effective readers’ skills on their own....
English I students finished up their work on connotations in “Those Winter Sundays.” We also did a little work on parts of speech in preparation for next week’s test. The kids will be having an essay question on their test, so we went over what...
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