English I students looked at metaphors closely, winding up the poetry unit. Today we focused on the function of metaphors: the vehicle/source always adds some meaning to the tenor/target. Students worked to determine these three things in a passage from As You Like...
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...
English I Honors students finished up “The Lanyard” and our examination of tone in that poem. We discovered that the humor comes from the tone. English 8 students looked at theme in Nightjohn.
English I Honors students looked at a lovely poem by Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays.” Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked...
English 8 students worked on their motif work for Nightjohn. We’ll be finishing up the novel shortly and using all the motif work to determine themes of the novel. English I students worked on the new unit, which is an introduction to poetry. Many students had...
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