English I students continued their parts of speech overview, looking today at indefinite and demonstrative pronouns and how they can sometimes be adjectives. Common indefinite pronouns include: all, any, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few,...
English 8 students began a new unit that will focus on voice and diction (among other things). We’ll be reading the novel Nightjohn. English I students began the final analytic Schaffer paragraph, this one on symbolism and irony. We’ll be writing our final...
Monday and Tuesday the kids looked at the third way of analyzing short stories: we examined the symbolism and irony in a story, noting that they are often connected. Below is a video of the class.
English 8 students moved from “From the Book” to “From my Head” (the second “H” in the “bHh” of the title). We’re looking at three questions to pull information from kids’ heads: What surprised me? What did...
English 8 students started looking at themes in Nightjohn by looking at motifs in the early part of the work. English I Honors students began the final writing cycle for our short story unit, examining irony and symbolism in Dinesen’s “Peter and...
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