English 8 students completed their Flowers for Algernon unit with a short test. We’ll begin a new short unit on text structures tomorrow. English I students worked on their article of the week looking at the word “entrepôt” in the AOW. We also went...
English 8 students had a Socratic seminar today about Flowers for Algernon and some moral implications from the story. We discussed two things: Should Charlie have gone through with the operation? What did he gain? What did he lose? What are the moral responsibilities...
English I students worked on an examination of how various artists throughout history have represented the story of Calypso in the Odyssey. We began by examining the etymology of the word and came up with a rough Schaffer outline for our thoughts: Afterward, we looked...
English I students went over the opening of the Odyssey, examining the things that make the piece a challenging passage to read. We finished up the prologue and will move to the first part tomorrow. English 8 students continued with Flowers for Algernon....
English I students worked on the start of the new unit covering briefly the elements of an epic and what an epic simile looks like (very briefly). We then turned to infinitive phrases in order to prepare finish up verbal phrases before moving on to appositives, a...
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