First Day Back

First Day Back

English I students worked on a parts-of-speech review before the (likely) test on Friday. Afterward, we began working on tone in poetry. Students received an expansive list of tone words, which students will start learning over the next few weeks. English 8 students...
Connotation and Research

Connotation and Research

English I finished with their first poem dealing with connotations: English 8 continued with their major argument writing project, determining what evidence they already have collected for their argument:...
Connotations

Connotations

English 8 students worked on their major writing project for the quarter, which they will be completing this week. Today they collaborated on potential reasons to back up their chosen topics. We have a load of evidence already outlined, and tomorrow we’ll begin...
Poetry and Analysis

Poetry and Analysis

After going over transitive and intransitive verbs for fifteen minutes, English I finished their first poem: What a layered puzzle of wonderfulness! Well, I’m not sure the students all agree yet that most poems are like that, but we did get some excitement today...