Alliteration and Presentations

Alliteration and Presentations

by | Dec 6, 2010 | English I Honors, Update

Second and sixth periods looked at Walter de la Mare’s poem “Silver” to continue learning about sound devices, specifically alliteration. Fourth period had their first poetry presentations, working on direct and implied metaphors. Student-presenters...

Figurative Language and Emotional Language

by | Nov 19, 2009 | Update

First, second, and fourth periods all worked on figurative language: similes, metaphors, and personification. We looked at three poems that use figurative language: “Concrete Mixers,” “The City is So Big,” and “Harlem Night Song.”...

Citation Practice and Poetry

by | Dec 2, 2008 | Update

First period began the poetry unit by looking at several elements of poetry, including: consonnance assonance alliteration simile metaphor personification Second period began reading the Odyssey after we had a quiz on it. Fourth and sixth periods completed their work...