Today, after the phrase quiz, we worked on using phrases and clauses together to break sentences down into constituent parts. If the sentence is the base unit, then the next smallest unit would be the clause followed by the phrase. That was the extent of our breakdown...
English 8 students worked on their Friday inference work. We re-examined the following text: Kyle ran into his house, slamming the door behind him. He threw his book bag on the floor and plopped onto the couch. After six hours of playing Grand Larceny VII, he ate some...
English 8 students cleared up some lingering final issues (old AOW work, some vocab studying for the end-of-the-quarter AOW vocab test), and English I students spend some more time working on phrases and their Hero’s Journey analysis of the Odyssey. All classes...
English I Honors students worked on phrases at the end of class (test coming Monday; notes attached below) after students worked on the Joseph Campbell/Hero’s Journey work for the Odyssey. English 8 students continued working on figurative language as well as...
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...
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