To prepare for the test, review these items. Make sure you examine them for use of personification repetition simile metaphor dramatic irony verbal irony parallel structure elliptical constructions...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
5.3 Revised and Douglass Annotations
English I Honors students worked on 5.3 a little more, looking at the 1996 re-visioning of the final scene, in which the director makes significant changes from the original text. We finished up...
Socratic Seminar and Close Reading
English 8 students finished up working on the third part of the very challenging Frederick Douglass text. As students worked, I conferenced with pairs looking at two sentences in particular: With...
5.3 and IXL
Many students were out for field trips and such during English 8, so students worked on allusions on IXL instead of moving ahead without the rest of the class. English I Honors students finished the...
Evaluations, Presentations, and Part 3
English I Honors students first began by looking at the feedback from teachers and peers about their "Decoration Day" assignment. Here are a few examples discussed in class regarding assuming what...
4.2 and Finishing Douglass Text 2
English 8 students went over the second part of the text about Frederick Douglass. We went over the required annotations and the paraphrasing students worked on in class. English I students covered...
Performance and Discussion
English 8 students had the second half of their Socratic seminars today after the SSR that we've begun each class with this week. English I Honors students had a final half day of preparation for...
Acting Project and Lit Circles
English 8 students continued working on their lit circles with the Frederick Douglass text. We'll finish tomorrow. English I Honors students began the act 4 acting project. We'll be planning more...
Test and Part 2 of Douglass
English I Honors students took the test on act 3 of Romeo and Juliet and phrases. English 8 students went over the subordinate clause homework (see below) before we went on to part 2 from the...
Subordinate Clauses, New Parallel Structure, and a Due Date
English 8 students took a brief look at subordinate clauses as we build skills to parse the difficult writing we're finding in Frederick Douglass's autobiography. Today was just general practice;...
Part 1 Complete and Project Work
English I Honors students had some time to work on their "Decoration Day"/Romeo and Juliet connection paragraphs. Students worked with a partner to make revisions based on the rubric, specifically...
Participles and Close Reading
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter English benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. English 8 students continued with their close reading of an extremely tough text,...
