English I students began a few days’ work on Shakespeare as we bring our poetry unit to a conclusion. We started today looking at how we could create an incredibly long sentence out of a relatively short sentence: we began with “When I go home, I...
English I students worked on figurative language today, focusing on the difference between tenor and vehicle. We did some work identifying them before turning our attention to the poems we’d already read this quarter. English 8 students completed their final...
English I Students in English I finished looking at Billy Collins’s poem “The Lanyard” and the shift in tone that occurs in the poem. After watching Collins reading the poem, we made notes of when the audience laughed. This led the students to...
English I Students in third and fourth periods worked on tone in poetry, looking at a lovely poem by Billy Collins called “The Lanyard.” We didn’t quite get to the tonal question as we were working on establishing a basic understanding of how the...
English I students continued their parts of speech overview, looking today at indefinite and demonstrative pronouns and how they can sometimes be adjectives. Common indefinite pronouns include: all, any, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few,...
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