Paraphrasing and Easily Confusing Words

Paraphrasing and Easily Confusing Words

First and fourth periods worked on changing their topic sentences from Friday’s homework. Students shared work, and we collaboratively revised the sentences. First period examples Assuming she’s irresistible, Calypso thinks that Odysseus will do whatever...
Paraphrasing Poetry

Paraphrasing Poetry

First period worked on paraphrasing as part of the process of understanding tricky poems. We paraphrased the poem “Silver” in class. Second and fourth periods had a quiz on tone words and then looked at the role ambiguity plays in poetry. Sixth period went...