Pronouns, Irony, and a New Unit

Pronouns, Irony, and a New Unit

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,...
Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy

Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy

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...

Final Paragraph and bHh

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...

Symbolism, Irony, and Motifs

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...