English I Honors students worked on the cyclops section, specifically looking at the use of Homeric similes (see notes). We determined the “formula” for a Homeric simile, including the odd fact that the simile, unlike most other metaphorical examples,...
English 8 students finished up the Halloween unit on “The Tell-Tale Heart” and started a new short unit on poetry, specifically focusing on figurative language. We went through a Pear Deck to assess students’ thoughts and preconceptions about poetry...
English I Honors students conducted a Socratic Seminar on the question of who had the most power, Calypso or Odysseus. Students used information from five sources to make their determinations and construct their arguments. English 8 students worked on their Friday...
English 8 students continued with the second of several sessions working with tone. We also went to the library for checkout. We’ll be embarking on silent sustained reading (well, maybe not quite so sustained) at the end of each period, so we needed to make sure...
English 8, after going over a term in the article of the week worked on tone some more. It’s a tricky subject that we’ll return to often. We worked on determining the tone of selected poems by following a four-step process: Determine the subject of the...
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