English I students began working on the next poem, Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” We spent the day making our way through the very challenging poem, with each group focusing on one single stanza of the poem: Do not go gentle...
On Friday, all students worked with relatively new material; today, we worked on applying it. English I students (fourth and fifth periods) worked on analyzing a poem in terms of the connotations of certain words to see if there is a somewhat different meaning hidden...
English I (fourth and fifth period) continued working on poetry; today we added the importance of connotation. We went over what connotation is: Afterward, we did some practice with connotation before moving on to the next poem, a selection in which connotation plays...
English I students began with a bit of analysis of our challenging article of the week, looking to determine what “flummery” might mean. Afterward, we continued with our new poetry unit, finishing up (mostly) our first analysis of a poem. As we worked, we...
English 8 students continued working on their cumulative first-quarter writing assessment in which they analyzed the author’s use of language in creating an effective voice for the narrator of Nightjohn. Today we worked on the hook, which should echo both the...
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