First and fourth periods began preparing to read Great Expectations, our next novel. We read an excerpt from chapter 1, and learned the two types of sentences that Charles Dickens, the author of...
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Works Cited and Victorian England
First and fourth periods are now preparing to read Great Expectations. Today, we covered what life was like in Victorian England (mid 1800s). On the side, we also had an "April Fool's" joke by Mr....
Allegories and Works Cited
In first and fourth periods today, they worked on identifying symbols in Lord of the Flies after taking the phrases test. Today second and seventh periods worked on their work cited paper and they...
Symbolism and Works Cited
First and fourth periods began by reviewing the types of phrases for tomorrow's test. We then moved on to discuss The Lord of the Flies as an allegory in our groups, finding the meaning of all...
Phrase Work and Works Cited
Today, first and fourth period reviewed phrases. After going over a difficult sentence as their starter, they went to the books for some extra practice. Today second and seventh period finished...
Symbols and Online Citations
First and fourth periods today discussed the ending of The Lord of the Flies and also began learning more about symbols. As we have now finished the allegory, we will now be trying to determine what...
Mob Mentality in Lord of the Flies
First and fourth periods took a look at how the idea of the Mob Mentality applies in chapter 9 and 10 of Lord of the Flies. Then they also looked at the phrases that they have been learning in...
Appositives
First and fourth periods today continued their study of the types of phrases. Today, we learned about appositives, and then worked on identifying them in sentences by looking at examples from the...
Lord of the Flies and Research Concluding
First and fourth periods today discussed chapter 8 of the Lord of the Flies. We mainly focused on the portion of chapter 8 where Simon was hallucinating about meeting the "Lord of the Flies." From...
English I Phrase Test
English I students will have a test on phrases Thursday 10 April. Resources for additional preparation for this test are available here.
Authority in Lord of the Flies
First and Fourth periods in class today did a Socratic Seminar about how authority and the reading that they went over yesterday apply in Lord of the Flies. We've also made a change about the next...
Milgram and Authority
First and fourth periods looked at how authority works in society, and then looked at an example, Milgram's Experiment. Milgram's experiment was designed to show how far people will follow the will...
