English 8 students looked at voice in Nightjohn, trying to generalize some rules about the narrator’s voice from specific examples that we examined in class. English I Honors students looked at “The Cask of Amontillado” to determine if we can trust...
English Studies continued with yesterday’s work on using context clues to determine a word’s meaning. We have four rules from yesterday that they began applying today: Look for synonyms/definitions Look for antonyms Look for relationship/transition words...
English 8 students began their new schedule today: Monday will be for covering a specific writing genre (argument first period). Tuesday will be for writing and conferencing. Wednesday will be for craft, focusing first period on sentence variety. Thursday will cover...
First and fourth periods began looking at the question of point of view and reliable/unreliable narrators. We read “In the Family” as our initial model text and we’ll be applying what we discovered to a famous Poe story tomorrow. Second and seventh...
First and fifth periods worked on chapter three in Nightjohn, preparing for a second day in which we learn about participles — verbs that think they’re adjectives. Second and fourth periods examined Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” to...
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