Homeric Similes and Jigsaw Reading

Homeric Similes and Jigsaw Reading

by | Feb 6, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and Fourth Periods had a short quiz on Odysseus’s encounter with the Lotus Eaters and Polyphemus. They also worked on locating Homeric Similes. Second and seventh periods worked on jigsaw reading for Flowers for Algernon after going over the text structure...
Nightjohn and the Cyclops

Nightjohn and the Cyclops

by | Oct 16, 2012 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First and fifth periods almost completed the Nightjohn film we’re watching as a culmination to our unit on tradition and change. We’ll be writing an argumentative essay next week as the capstone to the quarter. Second and fourth periods continued with the...
Poetry and Homeric Similes

Poetry and Homeric Similes

by | Dec 15, 2008 | Update

First period finished up the mini-unit on sound devices and moved on to figurative language: simile, metaphor, and personification. We began by looking at one poem (“Concrete Mixers”) in pairs for examples of all three forms of figurative language....