English I students finished a two-day analysis project in which they looked at the role allusions can play in the development of an artistic creation: The Police song “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” It will be part of a final research project option...
English 8 students worked on determining the main idea (or central idea) of a nonfiction text today. We began by looking at a text about Michaela DePrince, the orphan from Sierra Leone who was adopted by an American family and is now a world-class ballerina. We went...
English 8 students finished (almost) their review of text structures that we will soon begin applying to determining the main idea and supporting details of a nonfiction text. Students in English I finished looking at the allusions to Calypso in various other forms of...
English I students began the Odyssey, even listening to a little of the original Greek: We focused on the opening lines, the prayer to the muses: Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for...
English 8 students cleared up some lingering final issues (old AOW work, some vocab studying for the end-of-the-quarter AOW vocab test), and English I students spend some more time working on phrases and their Hero’s Journey analysis of the Odyssey. All classes...
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