English 8 students continued with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” shifting to some character analysis. We looked at psychological factors behind the story. We looked at questions like:

• What motivates the narrator’s actions?
• How does the narrator describe himself?
• How do his actions portray him?

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English I students went over participial phrases briefly.

We concluded with a practice test and some time looking at some of the new poems that will be on tomorrow’s test:

• “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost
• “Coming to This” by Mark Strand
• “Budapest” by Billy Collins

Homework

• English 8: check your grades and work on missing work you might have. (We already have an inordinate number of NHIs for this quarter.)
• English I Honors: review all the poems we studied in the unit; review the practice test on the courses site; review the new poems that will be on the test tomorrow.