English I students finished up the work on figurative language, examining metaphors, similies, personification, hyperbole, and idioms to determine the tenor and the vehicle. We then went over meter for the last fifteen minutes of class. It won’t be on any test,...
All students went to the library today. We’ll be looking to have two One-Pager assignments this quarter. English I spent the rest of the class period going over meter — a very fast overview to make sure students understand what iambic pentameter is when we...
First and fourth periods broke into groups and worked on paraphrasing Sonnet 130, and then went over it. Students also practiced writing iambic pentameter in preparation for our sonnet writing adventure. We looked at a couple of things to be aware of when writing in...
First and fifth periods are nearing the end of the Anne Frank reading. We should be finishing up tomorrow or Monday. Today we went over scene three, a very emotional scene. We’ll be having a test on the unit next Wednesday. I will post details about it later...
Today in class we learned about meters. not the meter like a meter stick, but a meter in poem. meters in a poem are defined as, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. The stressed meter looks like this / this the unstressed looks like this u...
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