First Draft, Nightjohn Plot, and the Great Bow

by | Oct 12, 2010 | Update

First period started their first draft for their literacy memoir today. I’m excited about a number of the topics, and I look forward to reading them. Second and sixth periods completed the plot chart for Nightjohn thus far. We also read through the climax. Some...

Specific Nouns, Sensory Details, and Antigone

by | Sep 15, 2009 | Update

First and seventh continued working on improving our use of specific nouns. Second period worked on the same thing, but then, having some extra time, we returned to sensory details to look at how to include them without being so direct: “I smell,” or...

Sensory Details and Review

by | Sep 11, 2009 | Update

Second period (English I) went over the material from the first half of our parts of speech review (nouns, pronouns, and adjectives). We began reading Antigone. First and seventh periods worked on sensory language a little more. We’ll start applying that to our...
Adjectival Sepia Details

Adjectival Sepia Details

by | Sep 10, 2009 | Update

We added some examples of sensory language from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. For one passage, I showed instead of telling: I looked around the room that I had never in my wildest fantasies imagined I would see. Browned photographs leered or...