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...
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 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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