English 8 students continued working with text structures, applying the chronological text structure to “A Tell-Tale Heart” before moving on to the cause/effect text structure. We’ll be applying it to “A Tell-Tale Heart” tomorrow. English...
English I Honors students had their final day of test prep/unit review today. I gave students a copy of the poems that will be on the test tomorrow, and they had the opportunity to collaborate on the interpretation of the poems. English 8 students finished up...
English I students (fourth and fifth period) worked on the next step in our phrase phase by covering the basic idea of the participle. It was a 10-minute introduction to the form (the -ing or -en form of the verb), and that was that. Tomorrow we’ll work on the...
English I students finished up their work on sonnets today and then had a little practice with prepositional phrases in a Gimkit to finish the week with a bit of fun. English 8 students continued working on our short Halloween unit. HomeworkEnglish 8: continue...
English I students worked on their final sonnet, the famous “Sonnet 130.” They looked at it in terms of the problem/solution organizational structure of sonnets, paying particular attention to the crucial third quatrain. They also examined it...
English I students today continued with the final stages of our poetry unit, looking at Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” while refreshing an old term (inversion) and adding a new one (syntax). English 8 students began an incredibly short Halloween unit that...
English I students had their quarter 1 Article of the Week vocabulary quiz today. Most students did very well. Afterward, we went over prepositional phrases and began a new sonnet. English 8 students had their unit-summarizing test on Nightjohn, voice, fragments, and...
English 8 students worked on a practice test for tomorrow’s test on Nightjohn, effective readers’ skills fragments, and voice. Everyone did fairly well on the pre-test, so we will go ahead with the test tomorrow. Anyone who would like additional practice...
English I students began a few days’ work on Shakespeare as we bring our poetry unit to a conclusion. We started today looking at how we could create an incredibly long sentence out of a relatively short sentence: we began with “When I go home, I...
English 8 students conducted their first real Socratic Seminar today, discussing a couple of events from Nightjohn, the novel we’re about to finish. Students were engaged, focused, and professional as they discussed the book. It was a sight that brought a smile...
English 8 students had their first practice Socratic Seminar today. We’ll be having a real one tomorrow on a more academic topic: today we went over the rules and discussed — heavy topic here — favorite snacks. English I students worked on a highly...
English I students worked on figurative language today, focusing on the difference between tenor and vehicle. We did some work identifying them before turning our attention to the poems we’d already read this quarter. English 8 students completed their final...
English I Students in English I finished looking at Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” and the shift in tone that occurs in the poem. After watching Collins reading the poem, we made notes of when the audience laughed. This led the students to...
English I Students in third and fourth periods worked on tone in poetry, looking at a lovely poem by Billy Collins called “The Lanyard.” We didn’t quite get to the tonal question as we were working on establishing a basic understanding of how the...
English I English I students worked on tone in the poetry we’ve read thus far. We began with “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” noting the tone of defiance at the beginning of the poem and how the repetition of “do not go gentle”...
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