Today we started with participial phrases since the next section of the sonnet which we are working with includes a fair number of participles: Afterward, we HomeworkEnglish I Honors: paraphrase the final two lines of the...
English 8 students began a short unit on irony and its use in fiction to heighten tension, specifically in horror stories. We’ll be studying Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” to look at how Poe uses all three forms of irony — situational,...
English I Honors finished working with “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” We concluded with the observations borne out in the poem: Poetry is distilled language; we have to add back in what the poet distilled out. Poetry works on...
English 8 started working on standard L-4.1 (show knowledge of the function of gerunds, participles, and infinitives and their functions in particular sentences). We’re looking at how the author uses participles in Nightjohn. English I students worked on poetry,...
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter English benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. English 8 students continued with their close reading of an extremely tough text, the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. English I Honors students...
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