Pronouns, Irony, and a New Unit

Pronouns, Irony, and a New Unit

by | Sep 12, 2022 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I students continued their parts of speech overview, looking today at indefinite and demonstrative pronouns and how they can sometimes be adjectives. Common indefinite pronouns include: all, any, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few,...
Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy

Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy

by | Sep 14, 2021 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students began a new unit that will focus on voice and diction (among other things). We’ll be reading the novel Nightjohn. English I students began the final analytic Schaffer paragraph, this one on symbolism and irony. We’ll be writing our final...
Method 3: Looking at Irony and Symbolism

Method 3: Looking at Irony and Symbolism

by | Sep 29, 2020 | English I Honors, Update

Monday and Tuesday the kids looked at the third way of analyzing short stories: we examined the symbolism and irony in a story, noting that they are often connected. Below is a video of the class. Class NotesNotes for the day's classes are available here.Please note...

Final Paragraph and bHh

by | Sep 18, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students moved from “From the Book” to “From my Head” (the second “H” in the “bHh” of the title). We’re looking at three questions to pull information from kids’ heads: What surprised me? What did...

Symbolism, Irony, and Motifs

by | Sep 17, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students started looking at themes in Nightjohn by looking at motifs in the early part of the work. English I Honors students began the final writing cycle for our short story unit, examining irony and symbolism in Dinesen’s “Peter and...