The Cave and the Annex

by | Apr 29, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students began reading and examining in earnest The Diary of Anne Frank. We’ll be reading it in class for the first act, changing to literature circles and presentations for the second act. English I Honors students worked on “The Allegory of the...

Allegory, Racism, and Writing

by | Feb 3, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students re-started the bi-weekly writing session that defined much of the first semester. Tuesdays and Fridays will be writing and consultation days, and we began today with a list of almost 190 argumentative writing topics. In the coming weeks,...

Symbolism and Works Cited

by | Apr 9, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods began by reviewing the types of phrases for tomorrow’s test. We then moved on to discuss The Lord of the Flies as an allegory in our groups, finding the meaning of all possible symbols in the novel. After finding the meanings in our...

Symbols and Online Citations

by | Apr 7, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods today discussed the ending of The Lord of the Flies and also began learning more about symbols. As we have now finished the allegory, we will now be trying to determine what each character and object is a symbol for. Today in second and...
Allegory and Antecedents

Allegory and Antecedents

by | Mar 20, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods returned to Lord of the Flies and the question of what an allegory is. We accomplished this by continuing our examination of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” After marking the text a bit more, we viewed a claymation...