Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy

Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy

English 8 students began a new unit that will focus on voice and diction (among other things). We’ll be reading the novel Nightjohn. English I students began the final analytic Schaffer paragraph, this one on symbolism and irony. We’ll be writing our final...
Method 3: Looking at Irony and Symbolism

Method 3: Looking at Irony and Symbolism

Monday and Tuesday the kids looked at the third way of analyzing short stories: we examined the symbolism and irony in a story, noting that they are often connected. Below is a video of the class. Class NotesNotes for the day's classes are available here.Please note...
Odyssey and Tell-Tale Heart

Odyssey and Tell-Tale Heart

English I students worked on the introduction of the Odyssey, plotting the opening lines against a diagram of Odysseus’s journies. We determined that several of the lines match up perfectly to his journey and that we can determine a good bit of the story just...
Irony Walk and Participles

Irony Walk and Participles

English 8 students began a short unit on irony and its use in fiction to heighten tension, specifically in horror stories. We’ll be studying Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” to look at how Poe uses all three forms of irony — situational,...

Final Paragraph and bHh

English 8 students moved from “From the Book” to “From my Head” (the second “H” in the “bHh” of the title). We’re looking at three questions to pull information from kids’ heads: What surprised me? What did...