by Mr. Scott | Nov 6, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I students finished with The Police song “Wrapped Around Your Finger” as we covered allusions and introduced motifs. And that song is an excellent exemplar of them all. This quarter’s major extra credit option comes from the past two...
by Mr. Scott | Jan 18, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students completed the final reading for the immigration unit. We’ll be using this to review the process of developing the main idea and creating an objective summary of a text. It’s something students have done since elementary school, but...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 24, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I Honors finished working with “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” We concluded with the observations borne out in the poem: Poetry is distilled language; we have to add back in what the poet distilled out. Poetry works on...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 17, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students started looking at themes in Nightjohn by looking at motifs in the early part of the work. English I Honors students began the final writing cycle for our short story unit, examining irony and symbolism in Dinesen’s “Peter and...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 24, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I Honors finished the passage from As You Like It as an introduction to the idea of an extended metaphor. English 8 students continued working on their motif/theme project. We’ll have two more days of work on it. HomeworkEnglish 8: continue working...
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