Tell-Tale Heart and Sonnets

Tell-Tale Heart and Sonnets

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...
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...
Pronouns and Evidence

Pronouns and Evidence

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...