Tenor, Vehicle, and Chapter 6

Tenor, Vehicle, and Chapter 6

by | Oct 6, 2021 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students went through chapter six of Nightjohn today. We’ll finish it up tomorrow and have a discussion about it, looking at how the author pulls some interesting tricks. English I students worked on figurative language, looking specifically at the...
Tenor and Vehicle

Tenor and Vehicle

by | Nov 2, 2020 | English I Honors, Update

We began by looking at the first question for the new article of the week. Early in the piece, there is a challenging sentence that we went over: I have become consumed with an alarming possibility: that neither the polls nor the actual outcome of the election really...
Tests

Tests

by | Dec 18, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

Every class had a test today: English I Honors kids too a test on clauses and verbs while English 8 kiddos had a test on poetry and figurative language.   HomeworkEnglish 8:  work on IXL as needed; work on one-pager (Google Classroom) as needed; work on AOW...
Test Prep for Everyone

Test Prep for Everyone

by | Dec 17, 2019 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

After going over our diagramming homework (look at that beast below), we worked on test review for tomorrow. English 8 students worked on review for their own test tomorrow. HomeworkEnglish 8:  work on figurative language practice on Moodle as necessary; work on...