English I students continued with tone, returning to "The Lanyard" to notice how the poet carefully built the humor: We'll do some more tone work tomorrow, adding a new element to explain that...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Test and Final Writing
English I students had their parts of speech test. English 8 students worked on their final drafts of their technology arguments. [gallery type="slideshow" link="file" size="medium"...
Writing, Poetry, and Review
English I students had a final bit of in-class practice with parts of speech identification before tomorrow's test. Afterward, we went over "The Lanyard," covering first the allusion to Proust's ...
First Day Back
English I students worked on a parts-of-speech review before the (likely) test on Friday. Afterward, we began working on tone in poetry. Students received an expansive list of tone words, which...
Teacher Work Day
We're all looking forward to seeing you guys tomorrow. We're glad to be getting back to some semblance of normal for most of us. See you tomorrow!
Waltz Completion and Argument Progress
English I students finished up their work on the poem "My Papa's Waltz," determining that we have to be somewhat careful about reading too much into something based on connotation alone without...
Papa’s Waltz and Evidence
English I students worked on "My Papa's Waltz" to finish out our initial work on connotations in poetry. We worked through the poem to get an initial understanding, and tomorrow we'll finish pulling...
Connotations
English 8 students worked on their major writing project for the quarter, which they will be completing this week. Today they collaborated on potential reasons to back up their chosen topics. We...
Active/Passive Inferences
English 8 students worked on their Friday inferring paragraphs as well as a bit of makeup work (as needed). We took the opportunity to work outside. [gallery type="rectangular" link="file"...
Poetry and Analysis
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...
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.