English I students worked on their last poem before the test, “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop. It’s a villanelle, and tomorrow students will spend a little time at the start of the lesson determining the characteristics of a villanelle. English 8...
English 8 students continued with Flowers for Algernon, looking today at how Charlie’s increasing intelligence is affecting his relationships. We made some predictions and then read the next section for confirmation of those predictions. English I students...
English I students continued with sonnets. We also did some practice with parts of speech. We’ll have the parts of speech test on Friday. English 8 students continued with Flowers for Algernon. We’re still summarizing, but we’re beginning to look at...
English I students finished their first sonnet, Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 25.” English 8 worked on their culminating analytic project for the quarter, writing about how Charlie’s writing demonstrates his increased intelligence. HomeworkEnglish...
English I students began a two-poem study of Shakespeare to finish our poetry unit. English 8 students worked on their analytic paragraphs about Charlie in Flowers for Algernon. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: complete the indefinite pronoun...
English 8 students continued with Algernon, working on more annotation strategies and commonly confused words on No Red Ink. We’ll be working on these commonly confused words throughout the year, so it was a good time to start. English I finished the tone/tonal...
English I students worked on analyzing two poems (“Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz”) in a fairly complicated writing assignment. To be sure, we didn’t actually write the paragraphs, but we planned them and did about 75%...
English I students continued working on poetry: today we finished up “Those Winter Sundays” to examine the enormous role connotations play in the poem. English 8 students finished up a brief overview/review of objective and subjective statements as we...
English 8 students went through the first entry in the fictional progress reports of Flowers for Algernon. We made some inferences about the narrator, about the additional characters, and about the first-person point of view. English I students finished the poem...
English I students began a new, short unit on poetry. We’re looking at the poem “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry” in order to get some initial guidance on how to parse modern poetry. English 8 students also worked on the...
English I Honors students debriefed their first Article of the Week assignment, which I handed back today. We went over the three required annotations I checked. We basically covered appositives, but we didn’t officially name them: we’ll do that when we...
English 8 students had their first Socratic Seminar to discuss the statements we wrote about yesterday during our anticipatory session for our new unit. Sometimes, it’s better to remain ignorant about certain things. It’s fair to treat people differently...
English 8 students went over the anticipation guide for their new unit which will cover determining the main idea, summarizing, determining the theme, and examining point of view. We will be using Flowers for Algernon as our anchor text. English I students worked on...
English 8 students had a test on Schaffer today. We’ll start a new unit tomorrow. English I students began planning their second Schaffer paragraph, this time on Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” and the question of whether or not we can...
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