English 8 students worked on their Friday work: inference and IXL. English I Honors students worked on determining the tone of a poem -- the first...
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Motifs and Tone
English 8 students had another day of work on motifs in Nightjohn. English I Honors students added another poem to their tone work, looking at "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins. We also listened to a...
Somebody Wanted But So and Tone
English 8, still learning how several in-class engagements work, did their first "Somebody Wanted But So" post-reading engagement today. They worked on chapter 5 from Nightjohn, using SWBS to...
Compare/Contrast Extra Credit and Motifs Revisited
English 8 students looked at chapter 4 in Nightjohn to find the motifs we've been looking for (power, money, and freedom). We'll be using these for the end-of-the-unit project. English I Honors...
Connotation Redux and Argument
English 8 worked on the argument in Nightjohn. John makes a claim and backs it up with evidence to which Mammy makes a counterclaim. John then makes a rebuttal. Students worked groups to tease this...
Connotation and Inference
English I Honors students finished up their look at "Those Winter Sundays," examining the poet's use of connotation. English 8 did their first-quarter inference work.
Poetry Compared and Argument
English 8 students looked at a text about African traditions that slaves brought with them to America. We will finish tracing the argument tomorrow, then apply it to Nightjohn. English I Honors...
Poetry and Traditions
English 8 students continued with the second part of yesterday's lesson by applying what we'd learned to a text about how slaves retained many of their traditions while still enslaved. We'll be...
Argument Review and Final TS Day
English I Honors students took a final day to get the topic sentences and outlines for their final analytic short story paragraphs all lined up and ready to go. We worked collaboratively on making...
Socratic Seminars for All
All classes had Socratic Seminars today. English I Honors students worked on the second half of the two-part discussion of "The Necklace" (yesterday) and "The Gift of the Magi" (today). English 8...
Socratic Discussion and Motifs
English 8 students bean working on motifs, looking for three motifs in Nightjohn: power money freedom Motifs will be useful later when we start trying to determine a theme of the novel. English I...
Topic Sentences and Participles
English I Honors worked on tightening their topic sentences again. It's not what I originally planned on doing, but seeing the need, I tried to remedy it somewhat today. English 8 students hit one...
