English 8 Strategies continued with their MAP review, practicing again with some figurative language practice. We’ll finish up tomorrow before having a bit of review for a small test (covering the review material) we’ll be having on Monday. English 8...
English I Honors finished up a bit of work on Calypso, looking at two additional renditions and a short informational text about the etymology of her name. Afterward, students did a bit of comparing too see how different sources provide different insights into the...
English 8 Strategies began the sometimes-tricky art of integrating quotes from a document into one’s own writing. We had an introduction and a bit of practice, but tomorrow, thought it’s Wednesday and we should be working on sentences, we’ll continue...
First and fourth periods looked at how and why Shakespeare used questionable humor in his plays. We looked at the first 30 lines to determine how Shakespeare uses puns to create an opening that appealed to the groundlings in the Globe Theater. Second and seventh...
First and fifth continued with “Flowers for Algernon.” We started an informational text about the Rorschach test in an effort to cover standard RI2: “Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text,...
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