English 8 students finished up Nightjohn (more or less) in class today. We had a final Effective Readers' Skill practice (see below in homework). English I Honors students began Shakespeare, looking...
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Tonal Shift and Skills Review
English I students continued working on tone and poetry today, finally learning what that funny line we kept drawing in poems is called. It's the tonal shift, the spot in the poem where the tone...
Tone and Life Lessons
English 8 students had a little discussion about the effects of not doing one's homework. We looked at the difference in district policy at middle school (where not handed in work results in a...
First Quarter Extra Credit
You can add additional points to two of your three analytic essays on short stories by doing the three following things: Correct your original paragraph. Make it perfect in every way. Write 1-3...
Do Not Go Gentle into SWBS
English I Honors students began looking at tone by examining one of the most famous poems ever written, Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." We'll be working on it some more...
Connotations, Quiz, and the Library
English 8 students used Moodle's quiz module for the first time today to go through questions about yesterday's passage from Nightjohn. We'll be using this module throughout the year, so it's...
Connotation, Participles, and Motifs
English I Honors finished working with "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry." We concluded with the observations borne out in the poem: Poetry is distilled language; we have to...
Participles and Poetry
English 8 started working on standard L-4.1 (show knowledge of the function of gerunds, participles, and infinitives and their functions in particular sentences). We're looking at how the author...
Writing and Reading
English 8 students continued working on implementing BHH/effective readers' skills. We made it through almost all of chapter 3 in Nightjohn. English I Honors students continued working on their...
Final Paragraph and bHh
English 8 students moved from "From the Book" to "From my Head" (the second "H" in the "bHh" of the title). We're looking at three questions to pull information from kids' heads: What surprised me?...
Symbolism, Irony, and Motifs
English 8 students started looking at themes in Nightjohn by looking at motifs in the early part of the work. English I Honors students began the final writing cycle for our short story unit,...
Voice and Assessments
English I Honors students began the day with a benchmark assessment for my required SLO (Student Learning Objective) documentation. It didn't quite take all of the period, and students spent the...
