English I students worked on their final sonnet, the famous “Sonnet 130.” They looked at it in terms of the problem/solution organizational structure of sonnets, paying particular attention to the crucial third quatrain. They also examined it...
English I students today continued with the final stages of our poetry unit, looking at Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” while refreshing an old term (inversion) and adding a new one (syntax). English 8 students began an incredibly short Halloween unit that...
English I students had their quarter 1 Article of the Week vocabulary quiz today. Most students did very well. Afterward, we went over prepositional phrases and began a new sonnet. English 8 students had their unit-summarizing test on Nightjohn, voice, fragments, and...
English 8 students worked on a practice test for tomorrow’s test on Nightjohn, effective readers’ skills fragments, and voice. Everyone did fairly well on the pre-test, so we will go ahead with the test tomorrow. Anyone who would like additional practice...
English I students began a few days’ work on Shakespeare as we bring our poetry unit to a conclusion. We started today looking at how we could create an incredibly long sentence out of a relatively short sentence: we began with “When I go home, I...
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