English 8 English 8 students worked on effective readers’ skills today, focusing on: commenting and predicting. We returned to “Thank You, Ma’am” to begin applying effective readers’ skills: English I English I students worked on writing...
Students in English I today dove into the topic we covered only in overview form yesterday: the Schaffer body paragraph. We looked at some student examples from last year and evaluated the topic sentence, one concrete detail, and one commentary sentence from one...
English 8 students went over homework and classwork from yesterday before completing the questions from Nightjohn. Next Tuesday we’ll be having a test on the topics associated with Nightjohn. voice diction syntax participles effective readers’ skills using...
English 8 students finished up Nightjohn (more or less) in class today. We had a final Effective Readers’ Skill practice (see below in homework). English I Honors students began Shakespeare, looking at a few sonnets to get us warmed up for the Bard’s...
English I students continued working on tone and poetry today, finally learning what that funny line we kept drawing in poems is called. It’s the tonal shift, the spot in the poem where the tone changes. It’s accompanied by the lyric moment, which is where...
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