English 8 students began our new unit, which is about the search for home. We’ll be starting with some selections about immigration, so we prepared for those selections by watching 10 minutes from the legendary 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame. We also watched...
English 8 students continued with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” shifting to some character analysis. We looked at psychological factors behind the story. We looked at questions like: What motivates the narrator’s actions? How does the narrator describe...
English 8 students continued with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” reaching the climax of the story: when the narrator commits the awful dead. We continued marking the text for use of repetition, specifically how the narrator continually brags about how smart he is...
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...
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