English 8 students worked on their Nighjohn/theme project today. It's the last day we'll be working in class on it. English I Honors students had their...
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PSAT and Project
English 8 students worked on their theme project for Nightjohn. English I students worked on logic puzzles as the vast majority of students were taking the PSAT.
Figurative Language and a Test
English I students worked on figurative language in poetry, specifically in Shakespeare. We'll have a test on the poetry unit next Monday. English 8 students worked on their Nightjohn test. All...
Metaphors and Theme
English I Honors students looked at metaphors and how they work -- the vehicle provides new meaning to the tenor. If you don't know what that means, ask a student from English I: they know now....
Sonnets and Completion
English 8 students went over homework and classwork from yesterday before completing the questions from Nightjohn. Next Tuesday we'll be having a test on the topics associated with Nightjohn. voice...
Finishing Nightjohn and Starting the Bard
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...
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...
