Poetry and Verbs

Poetry and Verbs

English I students began a three-week grammar unit in which the goal is simple: reach a point that students can describe the function of each and every word in a given sentence. To that end, we looked today at verbs, specifically the difference between action and...
Villanelles and Linking Verbs

Villanelles and Linking Verbs

English I Honors students finished up working with villanelles in anticipation of writing a much more challenging poem, a sonnet, in a couple of weeks. Afterward, we returned to the question of meter in poetry, which we will finish up next week as we work on our...

Finishing Up Grammar

First, second, and seventh periods finished up verbs. Now that we’ve covered nouns, pronouns, and verbs, we’ll be trying to cover subject-verb agreement quickly before the PASS test. Fourth period almost completed work on clauses. We’ll be starting a...

Grammar Day

First, second, and seventh periods went over linking verbs in a desperate attempt to get subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement finished before the PASS writing test next week. We should finish up working on verbs tomorrow. Fourth period went over clauses, both...