English 8 students began a new unit that will focus on voice and diction (among other things). We’ll be reading the novel Nightjohn. English I students began the final analytic Schaffer paragraph, this one on symbolism and irony. We’ll be writing our final...
Monday and Tuesday the kids looked at the third way of analyzing short stories: we examined the symbolism and irony in a story, noting that they are often connected. Below is a video of the class.
English I students worked on the introduction of the Odyssey, plotting the opening lines against a diagram of Odysseus’s journies. We determined that several of the lines match up perfectly to his journey and that we can determine a good bit of the story just...
English 8 students began a short unit on irony and its use in fiction to heighten tension, specifically in horror stories. We’ll be studying Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” to look at how Poe uses all three forms of irony — situational,...
English 8 students moved from “From the Book” to “From my Head” (the second “H” in the “bHh” of the title). We’re looking at three questions to pull information from kids’ heads: What surprised me? What did...
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