English I students worked on analyzing two poems (“Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz”) in a fairly complicated writing assignment. To be sure, we didn’t actually write the paragraphs, but we planned them and did about 75%...
English I students continued working on poetry: today we finished up “Those Winter Sundays” to examine the enormous role connotations play in the poem. English 8 students finished up a brief overview/review of objective and subjective statements as we...
English 8 students went through the first entry in the fictional progress reports of Flowers for Algernon. We made some inferences about the narrator, about the additional characters, and about the first-person point of view. English I students finished the poem...
English I students began a new, short unit on poetry. We’re looking at the poem “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry” in order to get some initial guidance on how to parse modern poetry. English 8 students also worked on the...
English I Honors students debriefed their first Article of the Week assignment, which I handed back today. We went over the three required annotations I checked. We basically covered appositives, but we didn’t officially name them: we’ll do that when we...
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