Today students began by going over the next sentence in our clause-identification practice we’re doing for a starter. Afterward, we covered standard L-4.1b about active and passive voice. After students figured out the difference with a little guided discussion,...
We began the day with an analysis of clauses in a given sentence, as we’ve done for the last few days now. This sentence was from Great Expectations, which is the final book we’ll be exploring this year starting later this week. We finished up looking at...
English 8 students returned to tone in poetry today, using the figurative language we’d discovered and analyzed in the poem “The Black Earth” we’d been working on for the last few days. We’ll be doing similar work during the next few...
English I students began a three-week grammar unit in which the goal is simple: reach a point that students can describe the function of each and every word in a given sentence. To that end, we looked today at verbs, specifically the difference between action and...
English I Honors students finished up working with villanelles in anticipation of writing a much more challenging poem, a sonnet, in a couple of weeks. Afterward, we returned to the question of meter in poetry, which we will finish up next week as we work on our...
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