English I Honors students worked on symbolism in "The Necklace" and "Gift of the Magi" as well as a bit of work with parts of speech identification. English 8 students practiced effective group work...
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Irony, Parts of Speech, and a Benchmark
English 8 students took a benchmark for the year, and we will be finishing it up tomorrow. English I Honors students worked on making a good topic sentence for the story we read yesterday, then had...
Irony and “Somebody Wanted But So”
English I Honors students finished up their third paragraph in the Schaffer analytic/short story unit. We began working on the fourth and final single paragraph, which is on irony and symbolism....
Work Day
English I Honors had a work day today, spending most of the class period working with a partner on their latest Schaffer analytic paragraphs. We'll be turning them in tomorrow during class. English...
Planning, Inferences, Book Fair, and Chess
English I Honors students worked on their planning for their third Schaffer paragraph. We'll be finishing up in class Monday, so make sure you are done with your regular planning and writing and...
Finishing and Chapter Three
English I Honors students completed the parts of speech presentations. They've now covered all eight parts of speech: nouns pronouns adjectives verbs adverbs prepositions conjunctions interjections...
Motifs, Verbs, and More
English 8 students began looking at what a motif is (a repeating image or idea that appears throughout a literary work) as we began moving toward the question of what a theme is and how to determine...
Comprehension and Characterization
English I students began working on their third topic in the short stories unit, this time on characterization. English 8 students, after some technical difficulties that I think I've finally...
Pronouns and Voice
English 8 students went over the final part of the voice and diction lesson, learning how diction (word choice) contributes to voice (the distinctive sound of an author or text). We looked at...
“Dangerous Game” General Notes
These are notes that apply to everyone though not necessarily everyone did these things: Never say "I think" or "I believe" in argumentative writing. It's obvious you think that, else you wouldn't...
Friday Work and Planning
English 8 students completed their normal Friday work on inferences. Since no article of the week was due today, they didn't have the AOW video. English I Honors students worked on their final draft...
Quotes and Diction
English 8 students worked on diction and voice. We examined some passages from Nightjohn in which the narrator, Sarny, "sounds like a slave," as one student aptly described. We looked at the...
