English 8 students went through chapter six of Nightjohn today. We’ll finish it up tomorrow and have a discussion about it, looking at how the author pulls some interesting tricks. English I students worked on figurative language, looking specifically at the...
English I students looked at metaphors closely, winding up the poetry unit. Today we focused on the function of metaphors: the vehicle/source always adds some meaning to the tenor/target. Students worked to determine these three things in a passage from As You Like...
First period began another timed writing. When we do the final timed writings about poetry, hopefully the whole process will take one period. For now, we’re going slowly. It’s practice in analyzing poetry as well as preparing to write a test essay cue...
Today in first period we got into our small groups and went over the posters that we made on the previous day. Some groups spent their time finishing up their poster. We then went over them as a class. We discussed the metaphors or similes in each of the three poems....
Second and sixth periods went over “Your World” in class, seeing that just because a poem seems to be all about it bird, it doesn’t necessarily have anything at all to do with a bird (thematically speaking). Fourth period students went over the...
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