End of Poetry Beginnings

End of Poetry Beginnings

We finished going over today the poem “Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry.” An annotated copy is below. We also completed the list of actions for understanding a poem: Read the poem (including the title) Make sure you understand all...
Poetry Beginnings

Poetry Beginnings

We began a new unit today in which we’ll be studying poetry, working specifically to develop skills necessary to parse and to understand a poem. We went over the first of several steps on how to understand (a poem). (The “a poem” parenthetical...
Tests

Tests

Every class had a test today: English I Honors kids too a test on clauses and verbs while English 8 kiddos had a test on poetry and figurative language.   HomeworkEnglish 8:  work on IXL as needed; work on one-pager (Google Classroom) as needed; work on AOW...
Test Prep for Everyone

Test Prep for Everyone

After going over our diagramming homework (look at that beast below), we worked on test review for tomorrow. English 8 students worked on review for their own test tomorrow. HomeworkEnglish 8:  work on figurative language practice on Moodle as necessary; work on...