English I and English 8 students went over the coming TDA, planning a bit how to attack Thursday’s prompt. We, of course, did not go over the actual prompt but discussed how to attack a prompt in general, how to see how many body paragraphs a given prompt would...
English 8 students continued working on text structures focusing today on the compare/contrast structure. We’ll be finishing up the short unit this week. English 8 students began working on their culminating project, which is a game based on the Odyssey....
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...
English 8 students worked on their first assessment for the text structure lesson we’ve been working on. The results were fantastic — a good start to the new unit. English I students were a little ahead of my schedule (about 1.5 days), so we rewarded their...
English I students worked on Homeric similes, looking at two examples to determine how these odd similes are created. English 8 students began the new unit (a very short unit) on text structures. We should finish the unit in a little over two weeks. HomeworkEnglish 8...
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