Projects and Projects

Projects and Projects

English I Honors students began the major project for the Romeo and Juliet unit, a soundtrack with arguments for each song’s inclusion that connects the song to the play. We began today by looking at a sample I’d created for students, then starting with...

Finishing Projects

As with yesterday, we worked on projects today, with all classes finishing up (or about to finish up) major end-of-quarter projects today. English I Honors students will need to turn in their poetry projects by midnight tonight. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: complete...

Project Work

All classes worked on their projects in class. See previous posts below for more information. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: complete the poetry recitation and analysis project by tomorrow...

Meter and Projects

English I Honors students finished up our whirlwind overview of meter in poetry before taking some time to work on their poetry projects. I’ve updated the rubric, specifically regarding the analysis of figurative language or sound devices. The new rubric is...
Tone and Socratic Seminar

Tone and Socratic Seminar

English I Honors continued with tone, examining Collins’s “The Lanyard.” To help students understand the poem, we looked at a public reading of the poem Collins gave. English 8 Strategies began working on their final quarter project, which will be an...