English I Honors students worked on phrases at the end of class (test coming Monday; notes attached below) after students worked on the Joseph Campbell/Hero’s Journey work for the Odyssey. English 8 students continued working on figurative language as well as...
English 8 students continued working on figurative language as we move through our poetry unit. We first looked at the article of the week a little, though. English I students began the final stages of the Odyssey, looking at Joseph Campbell’s Hero of a Thousand...
English I Honors students began the second half of the Odyssey today, looking at the elements of an epic hero that Odysseus exhibits: Extraordinary strength and courage Cleverness and deceit, also known as guile Extreme confidence and a tendency to dismiss warnings....
English I Honors students worked on the effect allusions have on the Police song “Wrapped Around Your Finger.” We worked out the big picture of the song, determining that the entire song seems to be an allusion to Odysseus’s relationship to Calypso...
English 8 worked on a figurative language review. We went over similes metaphors personification hyperbole understatement idiom. We’ll begin applying it on Monday. This slideshow requires JavaScript. English I Honors students worked on allusions and what they...
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