Bad Habits and Queen Mab

English 8 students began their new unit, which will be a non-fiction unit on The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective Teens. We began today with a Pear Deck session on bad habits some teens might have: Habit 1: Blame and React Habit 2: Begin With No End in Mind Habit 3:...

Blocking and Tone

English 8 students worked on tone with “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Today we determined the tone; tomorrow, we’ll be looking at the story for textual evidence to back up our assertions about the tone. English I Honors students began looking at all the...

Shaky Start and Friday Work

In English I, we began Shakespeare proper (1.1.1-30) and discovered that it begins with a little surprise, not entirely pleasant — a good lesson in the unpredictability of Shakespeare. English 8 students returned to their Friday inference work. HomeworkEnglish 8...
Sonnets and Theme

Sonnets and Theme

English I Honors today put together the last pieces of the sonnet puzzle, adding another tool to their “how do I interpret Shakespeare” toolkit: Then, knowing how each quatrain works, they set out on another sonnet, the famous 130: English 8 students began...
Participles and Parsing

Participles and Parsing

English 8 had review of participles before tomorrow’s test, which will include information about participles. English I Honors worked on parsing long Shakespearian sentences. We worked on sonnet 29: We began by looking at a long sentence that has syntactical...