English 8 students began our new unit, which is about the search for home. We’ll be starting with some selections about immigration, so we prepared for those selections by watching 10 minutes from the legendary 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame. We also watched...
The first time I approached the cemetery in Lipnica Wielka was November of 1996, and I headed up for my first experience with All Saints’ Day in Poland. I took pictures and made mental notes for my journal: I left my apartment around 4:30 and headed up to the...
English 8 continued with the brief parts of speech review, going over adjectives today: English I students had time to finish their test and then went over participial phrases. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete (as needed) the two quick writes on No Red Ink:...
English 8 students continued with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” shifting to some character analysis. We looked at psychological factors behind the story. We looked at questions like: What motivates the narrator’s actions? How does the narrator describe...
English 8 students continued with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” reaching the climax of the story: when the narrator commits the awful dead. We continued marking the text for use of repetition, specifically how the narrator continually brags about how smart he is...
English 8 unexpectedly moved Friday to Tuesday: due to the number of absent students (nine students absent out of thirty) in seventh period (now meeting during fourth period) , we elected to hold off on “The Tell-Tale Heart” since we’ll have a unit...
English 8 students worked on their Halloween story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” We made it through the first four paragraphs: we’re working on annotations and a summary, so it takes a bit of time to go through each paragraph. We’ll continue working...
English I students finished up the work on figurative language, examining metaphors, similies, personification, hyperbole, and idioms to determine the tenor and the vehicle. We then went over meter for the last fifteen minutes of class. It won’t be on any test,...
All students began the day with the first benchmark of the quarter. We’ll go over the results at some point next week, but since the test is proprietary, we won’t be able to look at or discuss the actual questions because of licensing and copyright. It...
English I students worked on “One Art,” finishing up the somewhat challenging poem and determining: the initial tone the location of the tonal shift the meaning of the lyric moment Afterward, we looked at “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke and...
We’re only going over homework today. It’s Friday — too tired to do much else. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: complete the questions for “The Lanyard” and complete the questions for “Do Not Go Gentle into...
English I students finished up “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” realizing that despite it’s apparent difficulty, it’s really a rather straightforward poem. Afterward, we used “Good Night” cover tonal shifts and the lyric...
English I students continued with tone, returning to “The Lanyard” to notice how the poet carefully built the humor: We’ll do some more tone work tomorrow, adding a new element to explain that precipitous drop at the end of the graph. English 8...
English I students had their parts of speech test. English 8 students worked on their final drafts of their technology arguments. This slideshow requires JavaScript. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete any missing work. English I Honors: work on extra credit if...
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