English I students worked on “One Art,” finishing up the somewhat challenging poem and determining: the initial tone the location of the tonal shift the meaning of the lyric moment Afterward, we looked at “The Waking” by Theodore Roethke and...
English I students finished up “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” realizing that despite it’s apparent difficulty, it’s really a rather straightforward poem. Afterward, we used “Good Night” cover tonal shifts and the lyric...
English 8 students completed the final reading for the immigration unit. We’ll be using this to review the process of developing the main idea and creating an objective summary of a text. It’s something students have done since elementary school, but...
English I students worked on 5.1, which is the famous party scene in which Romeo finally meets Juliet. Our focus for the day was on the hidden stage instructions that guide actors and directors in their creative decisions regarding the play’s staging. We looked...
English 8 students began a two-day independent practice engagement in which students have been working to determine the main idea of a text and then (more challenging — much more) determine how a selected passage from the text contributes to the development of...
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