English 8 had review of participles before tomorrow's test, which will include information about participles. English I Honors worked on parsing long Shakespearian sentences. We worked on sonnet 29:...
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Tonal Shift and Participles Plus
English 8 students worked on participles in anticipation of the coming test Tuesday on Nightjohn, effective readers' skills, voice/diction, and participles. English I Honors students learned what...
One Art and Effective Readers’ Skills
English I Honors looked at Elizabeth Bishop's masterpiece "One Art." The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster....
Tone and Inference
English 8 students worked on their Friday work: inference and IXL. English I Honors students worked on determining the tone of a poem -- the first...
Motifs and Tone
English 8 students had another day of work on motifs in Nightjohn. English I Honors students added another poem to their tone work, looking at "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins. We also listened to a...
Somebody Wanted But So and Tone
English 8, still learning how several in-class engagements work, did their first "Somebody Wanted But So" post-reading engagement today. They worked on chapter 5 from Nightjohn, using SWBS to...
Compare/Contrast Extra Credit and Motifs Revisited
English 8 students looked at chapter 4 in Nightjohn to find the motifs we've been looking for (power, money, and freedom). We'll be using these for the end-of-the-unit project. English I Honors...
Connotation Redux and Argument
English 8 worked on the argument in Nightjohn. John makes a claim and backs it up with evidence to which Mammy makes a counterclaim. John then makes a rebuttal. Students worked groups to tease this...
Connotation and Inference
English I Honors students finished up their look at "Those Winter Sundays," examining the poet's use of connotation. English 8 did their first-quarter inference work.
Poetry Compared and Argument
English 8 students looked at a text about African traditions that slaves brought with them to America. We will finish tracing the argument tomorrow, then apply it to Nightjohn. English I Honors...
Poetry and Traditions
English 8 students continued with the second part of yesterday's lesson by applying what we'd learned to a text about how slaves retained many of their traditions while still enslaved. We'll be...
Argument Review and Final TS Day
English I Honors students took a final day to get the topic sentences and outlines for their final analytic short story paragraphs all lined up and ready to go. We worked collaboratively on making...
