English I students began a few days’ work on Shakespeare as we bring our poetry unit to a conclusion. We started today looking at how we could create an incredibly long sentence out of a relatively short sentence: we began with “When I go home, I relax.” Students added and appended things until we reached the following:
Every single day of the week when I go to the home to the house I have lived in my whole life, I most often relax by sitting with my dog and reading a book that I really enjoy until dinner and then I go to sleep. (Fourth period)
I helped out a little with fifth period:
When I, tired from a day of working with adolescents and looking forward to some peace and quiet, go back to my home after a long day at school, I like to relax, sleep, and meditate, but not before I finish my homework because I like to get it over with so I can have fun after I am done with track. (Fifth period, with an addition from Mr. Scott)
After looking at that model, we had our first reading of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 29,” noting unknown words.
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Fourth period’s first annotations
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Fifth period’s first annotations
Sixth and seventh periods worked on their Somebody Wanted But So for chapter 5 in Nightjohn.
In addition to the work mentioned above, all students went to the media center for book checkout today. Students will be writing one-pagers for the second quarter, so they need to have an independent reading selection for this first half of the second quarter.
Homework
- English 8:
- complete reading chapter 5 from Nightjohn (as necessary);
- test Friday on Nightjohn.
- English I Honors:
- AOW vocab quiz on Friday;
- define unknown words from “Sonnet 29” by class time tomorrow.
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