Connotations

Connotations

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...
Poetry and Analysis

Poetry and Analysis

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...
Argument and Poetry

Argument and Poetry

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...