English I Honors students had their final day of test prep/unit review today. I gave students a copy of the poems that will be on the test tomorrow, and they had the opportunity to collaborate on the interpretation of the poems. English 8 students finished up...
English I Honors students, after going over the end of yesterday’s lesson and why it was so vulgar compared to what they were expecting (it has something to do with the audience gathering in the Globe Theater), went over the next portion of 1.1, with the brawl...
English 8 students began a second story in which we look at irony, tone, and mood: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” We began by looking at all the items that establish the setting (circled in red) and the mood (underlined in blue). English I Honors...
English 8 students began reviewing some of the thinking behind the vocabulary in the Article of the Week. Afterward, we finished up tone in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and worked on mood. English I students finished up the last sonnet (130), determining what the...
All classes were engaged today in lit circles in one form or another. The only exception was English Studies, which went over briefly how to determine tone in a poem: Look for repetitions. Determine the positive or negative nature of the repetitions. Look for more...
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