English I Honors worked on another little language trick Shakespeare likes to use: elliptical constructions. We used the prologue from act 2 as a model for our work. We’ve got two we’re looking for now: inversions; elliptical constructions. The former are...
English 8 students went over homework and classwork from yesterday before completing the questions from Nightjohn. Next Tuesday we’ll be having a test on the topics associated with Nightjohn. voice diction syntax participles effective readers’ skills using...
English 8 students finished up Nightjohn (more or less) in class today. We had a final Effective Readers’ Skill practice (see below in homework). English I Honors students began Shakespeare, looking at a few sonnets to get us warmed up for the Bard’s...
English I students finished their look at act 2 by going through four scenes at one shot by viewing a performance of the scenes without the text in front of them. Afterward, we went over some basic comprehension questions: Scene 3 What is Friar Lawrence’s...
English 8 students continued working on their Seven Habits of Effective Teens as part of their quarterly STEAM project. Students are working on outlining as a means to create objective summaries. We will use these as the basis of a larger jigsaw reading of the whole...
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