English I students worked on Calypso, looking at how other artists have made allusions to her story. English 8 finished their final drafts. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete narrative as needed. English I Honors: read “I am Laertes’ Son,” “The Lotus Eaters,” and...
English I students began the day with a quiz to show students that the Odyssey is not a typical piece of writing students can just breeze through. Students will need to read a little more carefully and slowly than they are probably used to. We went over a few tricks...
English I students began a new unit on the Odyssey, reading the opening lines and going over some expectations about the epic form we’ll be studying. This included the non-linear nature of the narrative: English 8 students continued with the narrative writing....
English 8 students began a two-day independent practice engagement in which students have been working to determine the main idea of a text and then (more challenging — much more) determine how a selected passage from the text contributes to the development of...
English I students worked on the monomyth from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with A Thousand Faces. We only made it through the first three stages of the hero’s journey: Call to adventure Refusal of the call Supernatural aid We’ll continue working on it...
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