English 8 students finished working with connotation in Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.” Sixth period didn’t quite finish as much as fifth period due to a fire drill, so we’ll have to catch up tomorrow. English I Honors finished up...
English I Honors students worked on diagramming (just a bit) and adverb clauses (just a bit as well): English 8 students began a little final work on poetry, looking at the importance of connotation in “Those Winter Sundays.” HomeworkEnglish 8: work...
English 8 students used Moodle’s quiz module for the first time today to go through questions about yesterday’s passage from Nightjohn. We’ll be using this module throughout the year, so it’s important to master it at the beginning of the year....
English I Honors finished working with “Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” We concluded with the observations borne out in the poem: Poetry is distilled language; we have to add back in what the poet distilled out. Poetry works on...
English 8 worked on the argument in Nightjohn. John makes a claim and backs it up with evidence to which Mammy makes a counterclaim. John then makes a rebuttal. Students worked groups to tease this all out of the text. English I Honors students took a look at a...
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