Guest Posting and Other Work

Guest Posting and Other Work

Today, a guest poster (who’ll be posting regularly for English Studies, first period) covered what first period did, though he left out the motivation: the purpose of the odd-sounding exercise was to provide a technique (and some practice) to take even the most...
Sonnets and Persuasion

Sonnets and Persuasion

Fourth period began the arduous process of writing a sonnet. Our topic was the difficulty of writing a sonnet. The pre-writing paraphrase was the following: I don’t want to write a sonnet: it’s too hard Why is it so hard? So much to worry about: Rhyme Meter: Iambic...
Planning and Meter

Planning and Meter

First, second, and sixth periods spent time planning their persuasion projects. Fourth period went over meter: “iambic pentameter” finally makes sense to them now, as does “dactylic tetrameter” and any number of combinations. We also decided...
Defining and Planning

Defining and Planning

Image via Wikipedia First and fourth period were both engaged in inductive reasoning to come up definitions. First period has been defining propaganda. After looking at specific examples of Nazi propaganda yesterday, we came up with a class list of characteristics of...

Ballads, Propaganda, and Persuasion

First period examined propaganda, specifically looking at pre-war Nazi propaganda. We looked at cartoons from Julius Streicher’s anti-Semitic magazine, Der Stürmer. We also saw examples of propaganda in postage stamps and propaganda for the kids. We’ll finish up...