Michaela’s Odyssey
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Homeric Text Structures
English 8 students finished up text structures with a light game of game-play: a Gimkit and a Kahoot. Virtually everyone demonstrated that they have mastered text structure identification. English I...
Finishing Text Structures and Calypso
Calypso and text structures
Odyssey and Text Structures
Text structures and the Odyssey
Hook and Test Prep
Hooked on poetry
Finishing Paragraphs and Continuing Sonnets
Writing and sonnets
A Sweet Poem and a Second Paragraph
English I continued with "Sonnet 29," looking today at the second half of the poem and examining it for two elements: Two examples of inversions (there are four in the final lines); One long phrase...
Sonnets
English I students began looking at sonnets today. We're getting our feet wet with Shakespeare a month or so ahead of starting Romeo and Juliet. English 8 students continued working with...
Library, Meter, and Final Project
Everyone started the same before heading off in different directions.
Seven Ages of Sarny
Projecting Shakespeare
Tenor, Vehicle, and Chapter 6
English 8 students went through chapter six of Nightjohn today. We'll finish it up tomorrow and have a discussion about it, looking at how the author pulls some interesting tricks. English I...
Tone Conclusion
Proustian madeleines and acts of bravery
