English 8 students continued with Flowers for Algernon, looking today at how Charlie's increasing intelligence is affecting his relationships. We made some predictions and then read the next section...
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New Sonnets and Charlie’s Change
English I students continued with sonnets. We also did some practice with parts of speech. We'll have the parts of speech test on Friday. English 8 students continued with Flowers for Algernon....
First Sonnet and Final Writing
English I students finished their first sonnet, Shakespeare's "Sonnet 25." English 8 worked on their culminating analytic project for the quarter, writing about how Charlie's writing demonstrates...
Shakespeare and Schaffer
English I students began a two-poem study of Shakespeare to finish our poetry unit. English 8 students worked on their analytic paragraphs about Charlie in Flowers for Algernon.
Algernon Planning and Meter
Tone Completion and Algernon Continuation
English 8 students continued with Algernon, working on more annotation strategies and commonly confused words on No Red Ink. We'll be working on these commonly confused words throughout the year, so...
Advanced Paragraphs and Summarizing
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...
Connotation and Objectivity
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...
Poetry and Point of View
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...
Cornell Notes
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...
AOW Debrief
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,...
Socratic Seminar and Planning
English 8 students had their first Socratic Seminar to discuss the statements we wrote about yesterday during our anticipatory session for our new unit. Sometimes, it's better to remain ignorant...
