After going over transitive and intransitive verbs for fifteen minutes, English I finished their first poem: What a layered puzzle of wonderfulness! Well, I'm not sure the students all agree yet...
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Argument and Poetry
English I students began the second unit today, a short overview of poetry. We began by reading "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry." I intended to screenshot our annotations,...
Homework Only Today
I didn't get a chance to screenshot anything before I left today, so it's homework only.
Prepositions and a Second Article
English I students continued with their parts of speech review, getting out of the traditional order and skipping from adjective to prepositions in order to help students identify prepositional...
Pronouns and Evidence
English I students worked on their parts-of-speech review for the first bit of class, learning about indefinite pronouns and how they're slippery fellows, sometimes transforming themselves into...
Pronouns, Development, and Evidence
English I students continued their parts of speech review, going over pronouns today and learning about things like antecedents and relative pronouns. Afterward, we worked on our "Magi"/"Necklace"...
Parts of Speech, Irony, Symbolism, and Paradox
English I students worked on a brief parts of speech overview that we'll be conducting alongside the regular unit we're working on, which right now is the short story unit. After a brief review of...
Socratic Paradox
English I students conducted a Socratic seminar about the short stories "The Necklace" and "The Gift of the Magi." We used the more formal paired alignment of the Socratic seminar, which we will use...
Irony TS and Friday Work on a Thursday
English I students went over their first major writing assignment on “The Cask of Amontillado” and whether or not we can trust the narrative despite the narrator being a confessed murderer. (We can...
IGP Prep
All classes took a bit of a break from English while Mrs. Torlay, one of our counselors, explained to everyone what the IGP (Individual Graduation Plan) will look like.
No Tech Tuesday Socratic Seminar
All classes conducted their first Socratic Seminars today. Fourth and fifth periods discussed the story "The Blue Stones" while sixth and seventh periods talked about the role technology plays in...
Workshop and Inference
English 8 students worked on their Friday inferring writing work. We're still on the same text about Paul and Alice, this time focusing on the nature of their relationship. English I students...