English I Honors finished the passage from As You Like It as an introduction to the idea of an extended metaphor. English 8 students continued working on their motif/theme project. We'll have two...
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Project and Metaphors
English I students looked at metaphors closely, winding up the poetry unit. Today we focused on the function of metaphors: the vehicle/source always adds some meaning to the tenor/target. Students...
Theme and Sonnets
English I Honors students finished with the second sonnet (130), learning about the tonal shift and lyric moment that exists in the sonnets' rhyming couplet. Afterward, students had the final 15...
Sonnets and Theme
English I Honors today put together the last pieces of the sonnet puzzle, adding another tool to their "how do I interpret Shakespeare" toolkit: Then, knowing how each quatrain works, they set out...
Tests
All classes had a test. No homework for anyone tomorrow.
Participles and Parsing
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:...
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...