Poetry and Analysis

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 that most poems are like that, but we did get some excitement today...
Argument and Poetry

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, but I forgot to do so before leaving school. We’ll...
Pronouns and Evidence

Pronouns and Evidence

English I students worked on their parts-of-speech review for the first bit of class, learning about indefinite pronouns and how they’re slippery fellows, sometimes transforming themselves into adjectives. Afterward, students worked on their...