Drawing Mistress and Rules for Sonnet

Drawing Mistress and Rules for Sonnet

by | Oct 29, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Today in class we started off the day by getting with a partner and comparing last nights homework.We also started another sonnet; Sonnet 130.We got to do a fun activity which was to draw how we thought mistress looked like based on the sonnet.We also took notes on...

A New Sonnet

by | Oct 28, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Today in English I class we finished up paraphrasing Sonnet 29. We also began working on Sonnet 18 and figured out what it meant and started paraphrasing it with a partner. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: You will need to finish up figuring out what Sonnet 18 was about...
First Encounters with Shakespeare

First Encounters with Shakespeare

by | Oct 26, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Today in class we made an insanely long sentence by adding words after words to create it.We also made our first encounter with Shakespeare, we read Sonnet 29 and divided  up the sonnet by creating two lists to understand how each part modifies a certain thing. Here...

Projects and a Poem

by | Oct 22, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors finished up with Collins’s “The Lanyard” and moved toward the end of our work on tonal shift and the lyric moment by looking at Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art,” my personal favorite. We will finish with “One...