Characterization, Foreshadowing, and Predicting

by | Mar 23, 2010 | Update

First and seventh periods continued with The Glory Field. We’ll be having a vocabulary quiz on the first two units’ vocabulary on Friday. Second period went over some notes about characterization. Fourth period looked at episodes of potential foreshadowing...

Symbols, Characters, Predictions, and Journeymen

by | Mar 22, 2010 | Update

First and seventh periods continued working on The Glory Field. We began a chart to keep track of the characters. First period began looking at how predictions can help comprehension; seventh period will catch up tomorrow. Second period completed a lesson on symbols...

Finally Friday

by | Mar 19, 2010 | Update

First and seventh periods continued with The Glory Field. We’ll soon be switching from in-class reading to reading homework assignments. The in-class progress so far has been somewhat slow as we’ve been taking the time to set up the story, understand the...
Introducing Miss Havisham

Introducing Miss Havisham

by | Mar 18, 2010 | Update

Fourth period took some time really to examine the introduction of Miss Havisham: In an arm-chair, with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand, sat the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials...

Final PASS Writing and Novels

by | Mar 17, 2010 | Update

We spent first and second periods administering the second day of the PASS writing test. Fourth period went over the chapters we’d completed yesterday. We did a bit of administrative house cleaning, as I pointed out the reading schedule (available here and at...