English 8 students finished working with connotation in Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays." Sixth period didn't quite finish as much as fifth period due to a fire drill, so we'll have to catch...
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Adverb Clauses and Winter Sundays
English I Honors students worked on diagramming (just a bit) and adverb clauses (just a bit as well): English 8 students began a little final work on poetry, looking at the importance of connotation...
Clauses and Practice with Individual Assessment
English 8 students worked on figurative language practice. We did some online practice while I sat with each student individually to assess students' general ability to interpret figurative language...
Diagramming and Inference Work
English I Honors students squeezed in a little experiment as we work through a grammar unit at the end of the semester: sentence diagramming! English 8 students worked on Friday inferring. We're...
Poetry Analysis and Active/Passive
English 8 students began moving toward the end of our poetry/figurative language unit by working in groups to do what we've been doing as a whole class: analyze and explain a poem, including all the...
Tone in Poetry and Verb Mood
English 8 students returned to tone in poetry today, using the figurative language we'd discovered and analyzed in the poem "The Black Earth" we'd been working on for the last few days. We'll be...
Poetry and Verbs
English I students began a three-week grammar unit in which the goal is simple: reach a point that students can describe the function of each and every word in a given sentence. To that end, we...
Friday Inference Work and Phrase Practice
A typical Friday with inference work for some and grammar practice for others.
Work and Junior Book Award Nominees
A rare day in which all classes in some way or another converge.
Figurative Language, Hero’s Journey, and Phrases
English I Honors students worked on phrases at the end of class (test coming Monday; notes attached below) after students worked on the Joseph Campbell/Hero's Journey work for the Odyssey. [gallery...
Figurative Language and the Monomyth
English 8 students continued working on figurative language as we move through our poetry unit. We first looked at the article of the week a little, though. English I students began the final stages...
Interpreting Figurative Language and Determining Hero Status
English I Honors students began the second half of the Odyssey today, looking at the elements of an epic hero that Odysseus exhibits: Extraordinary strength and courage Cleverness and deceit, also...
