English I Honors students worked on sound devices with poetry. We focused on a couple of poems, including the famous “My Papa’s Waltz.” We’ll finish up tomorrow before moving on to tone. English Studies (fifth period) began a final activity...
English 8 Strategies students worked today on sentence variety since it’s Wednesday (and we all know what Wednesday means: writer’s craft!), and both classes had an excellent session as we looked at complex sentences and how to form them. I’d like...
English 8 Strategies students went over last Friday’s test and had some long-overdue binder control, reorganizing binders and for some, creating new binders. Students need the following four tabs in their binders: Writing Focus My Writing Writing Craft Grammar...
First and fourth periods looked at rhyming and rhythm. We looked at the poem called “Papa’s Waltz” and “The Gift.” We looked at the pattern of stressed and unstressed words. Second and seventh periods completed their first quarter...
First period worked on sound devices in “Cat!”, noting in particular the use of rhythm (the definition we included: a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in writing), onomatopoeia, and alliteration, all added to our revised graphic organizer....
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