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Finishing Projects

As with yesterday, we worked on projects today, with all classes finishing up (or about to finish up) major end-of-quarter projects today. English I Honors students will need to turn in their poetry...

Algernon/Outsiders Essay Turn-in

Type your paragraph into Word. Document title: Save your document as "lastname_firstname." In other words "jones_sabrina" but not "sabrina_jones." Document location: Save your document into the...

Project Work

All classes worked on their projects in class. See previous posts below for more information.

Meter and Projects

English I Honors students finished up our whirlwind overview of meter in poetry before taking some time to work on their poetry projects. I've updated the rubric, specifically regarding the analysis...

Metrical Feet and Review

First period (English 8 Strategies) didn't have class due to the Donaldson Career Center visit, so during fifth period (also English 8 Strategies) we just did some review work. English I Honors...

Villanelles and Linking Verbs

Villanelles and Linking Verbs

English I Honors students finished up working with villanelles in anticipation of writing a much more challenging poem, a sonnet, in a couple of weeks. Afterward, we returned to the question of...

Presentations and Quote Integration Continued

English 8 Strategies students continued with yesterday's work of quote integration. We came up with some good examples of effective quote integration when we did our individual practice today: For...

Integrating Quotes and Practicing Projects

English 8 Strategies began the sometimes-tricky art of integrating quotes from a document into one's own writing. We had an introduction and a bit of practice, but tomorrow, thought it's Wednesday...

Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments

Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments

English 8 Strategies students had a discussion in the form of a Socratic seminar about topics related to our final project for the quarter, analytic paragraphs about the selections they are reading...

Tone and Socratic Seminar

Tone and Socratic Seminar

English I Honors continued with tone, examining Collins's "The Lanyard." To help students understand the poem, we looked at a public reading of the poem Collins gave. English 8 Strategies began...

Verb Phrases and Tone

Verb Phrases and Tone

English I Honors began a couple of days working with tone in writing, specifically in poetry. We began by saying the same sentence in various tones of voice in order to see what "tone" means in...

Sound Devices and Complex Sentences

Sound Devices and Complex Sentences

English 8 Strategies students worked today on sentence variety since it's Wednesday (and we all know what Wednesday means: writer's craft!), and both classes had an excellent session as we looked at...

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