English I students had a final bit of in-class practice with parts of speech identification before tomorrow’s test. Afterward, we went over “The Lanyard,” covering first the allusion to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past with a short story...
English I students worked on a parts-of-speech review before the (likely) test on Friday. Afterward, we began working on tone in poetry. Students received an expansive list of tone words, which students will start learning over the next few weeks. English 8 students...
English I students finished up their work on the poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” determining that we have to be somewhat careful about reading too much into something based on connotation alone without taking into consideration the original context of the...
English I students worked on “My Papa’s Waltz” to finish out our initial work on connotations in poetry. We worked through the poem to get an initial understanding, and tomorrow we’ll finish pulling out the connotations from the poem. English 8...
English I finished with their first poem dealing with connotations: English 8 continued with their major argument writing project, determining what evidence they already have collected for their argument:...
English 8 students worked on their major writing project for the quarter, which they will be completing this week. Today they collaborated on potential reasons to back up their chosen topics. We have a load of evidence already outlined, and tomorrow we’ll begin...
English 8 students worked on their Friday inferring paragraphs as well as a bit of makeup work (as needed). We took the opportunity to work outside. English I students went over active and passive voice with verbs. We’ll need to do some more practice, but most...
After going over transitive and intransitive verbs for fifteen minutes, English I finished their first poem: What a layered puzzle of wonderfulness! Well, I’m not sure the students all agree yet that most poems are like that, but we did get some excitement today...
English I students began the second unit today, a short overview of poetry. We began by reading “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” I intended to screenshot our annotations, but I forgot to do so before leaving school. We’ll...
English I students continued with their parts of speech review, getting out of the traditional order and skipping from adjective to prepositions in order to help students identify prepositional phrases. This will help them with all the other parts of speech,...
English I students worked on their parts-of-speech review for the first bit of class, learning about indefinite pronouns and how they’re slippery fellows, sometimes transforming themselves into adjectives. Afterward, students worked on their...
English I students continued their parts of speech review, going over pronouns today and learning about things like antecedents and relative pronouns. Afterward, we worked on our “Magi”/”Necklace” paragraphs, making sure we have strong topic...
English I students worked on a brief parts of speech overview that we’ll be conducting alongside the regular unit we’re working on, which right now is the short story unit. After a brief review of nouns, focusing a bit on the trickiness of identifying...
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