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 finished their whirlwind tour of phrases (see notes). We’ll have some practice over the next week or so and then have a small test on it. English 8 students finished yesterday’s work on “The Tell-Tale Heart.” And...
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 finished up the quarter, wrapping up some final assignments and clearing the books as it’s the last day of the quarter. English I Honors students began a short unit on phrases. We’ve moved this up from the third quarter due to...
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter science benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. In English I Honors we went over prepositional phrases to solve any misunderstandings from the IXL work on that topic. In English 8 we spent time on IXL...
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