Sonnet 130 and Comparison

Sonnet 130 and Comparison

by | Nov 7, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods broke into groups and worked on paraphrasing Sonnet 130, and then went over it. Students also practiced writing iambic pentameter in preparation for our sonnet writing adventure. We looked at a couple of things to be aware of when writing in...
Scene Three and Sonnets

Scene Three and Sonnets

by | Dec 13, 2012 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First and fifth periods are nearing the end of the Anne Frank reading. We should be finishing up tomorrow or Monday. Today we went over scene three, a very emotional scene. We’ll be having a test on the unit next Wednesday. I will post details about it later...

Learning about meters

by | Dec 7, 2010 | English 8

Today in class we learned about meters. not the meter like a meter stick, but a meter in poem. meters in a poem are defined as, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. The stressed meter looks like this / this the unstressed looks like this u...

The Thief

by | Nov 4, 2009 | Update

First and seventh periods went over act II scene 3. We looked in detail at the consequences of the theft. We’ll be finishing up the play tomorrow. Second period completed the play today. We’re scheduled to start a new unit — on poetry — on...