Today, a guest poster (who’ll be posting regularly for English Studies, first period) covered what first period did, though he left out the motivation: the purpose of the odd-sounding exercise was to provide a technique (and some practice) to take even the most...
Fourth period began the arduous process of writing a sonnet. Our topic was the difficulty of writing a sonnet. The pre-writing paraphrase was the following: I don’t want to write a sonnet: it’s too hard Why is it so hard? So much to worry about: Rhyme Meter: Iambic...
First, second, and sixth periods spent time planning their persuasion projects. Fourth period went over meter: “iambic pentameter” finally makes sense to them now, as does “dactylic tetrameter” and any number of combinations. We also decided...
First, second, and sixth periods took a Friday off from heavy lifting (to varying degrees: one period had some problems getting themselves together): we looked at a blues song that actually employs a couple of persuasive techniques. We then helped the bluesman out by...
First period reviewed the notes from reading yesterday. Yesterday’s lesson was a two-fold lesson: first, they got information about bias; second, they worked on note-taking skills. Yet the second objective can foil the first, so we made sure everyone knew what...
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