English 8 students had a test today on subordinate clauses and pronoun/antecedent identification — skills we used in tackling the Frederick Douglass text. English I Honors students worked on Romeo’s final monologue in Romeo and Juliet, looking specifically...
18 Today, first and fourth periods learned about the final type of sentence, the compound complex sentence. Compound-Complex Sentence two or more independent clauses one or more dependent clause combination of compound and complex sentence types Examples Although I...
19 First and fourth periods began the day looking at three sentences from Great Expectations, determining phrases, independent clauses, and (as needed) subordinate clauses. Afterward, we began, ahead of schedule, a couple of days’ work on foreshadowing in...
First and fifth periods had a practice run of the extended starters (ten minute writing sessions followed by five minute mini-discussions in pairs) we’ll be doing as part of this final unit. Second and fourth periods began looking at the question of...
First period examined the EQ, “How does a story’s medium affect the point of view?” We were specifically considering how the change from book to film makes a first-person point of view virtually impossible. Second and fourth periods continued working...
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