English 8 students finished working with connotation in Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.” Sixth period didn’t quite finish as much as fifth period due to a fire drill, so we’ll have to catch up tomorrow. English I Honors finished up...
English I Honors students worked on diagramming (just a bit) and adverb clauses (just a bit as well): English 8 students began a little final work on poetry, looking at the importance of connotation in “Those Winter Sundays.” HomeworkEnglish 8: work...
English 8 students worked on figurative language practice. We did some online practice while I sat with each student individually to assess students’ general ability to interpret figurative language that isn’t isolated but instead in a poem. English I...
English 8 students began moving toward the end of our poetry/figurative language unit by working in groups to do what we’ve been doing as a whole class: analyze and explain a poem, including all the figurative language involved in the poem’s development....
English 8 students returned to tone in poetry today, using the figurative language we’d discovered and analyzed in the poem “The Black Earth” we’d been working on for the last few days. We’ll be doing similar work during the next few...
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