First and fifth periods worked on participles, doing some independent practice and looking at examples in Nightjohn. Second and fourth periods began the final group of short stories in the unit, looking at irony and symbolism in the stories. Notes for all classes...
First and fifth periods continued with Nightjohn. We took something of a detour within the unit, looking at participles before heading back to the book to see how the author uses them in his writing. Second and fourth periods worked on planning the third essay in the...
First and fifth periods worked on chapter three in Nightjohn, preparing for a second day in which we learn about participles — verbs that think they’re adjectives. Second and fourth periods examined Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” to...
First and fifth periods continued working on concrete details from Nightjohn. We created new concrete details to back up the topic sentence about one character’s use of non-standard English being an indication of her social status (i.e., that she is a slave)....
First and fifth periods began working on applying the Schaffer model to writing about literature. We looked at the non-standard English examples from Nightjohn we’d developed yesterday and used those as concrete details for short paragraphs. As an example, I...
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