Welcome back from the holiday break and to the last stretch of this very busy semester!
Pre-AP English 9
In today's class, we spent a great deal of time focusing on apostrophes and their uses. We especially focused on the over-arching rule of apostrophe, which is, "Apostrophes show contraction and possession, but not plurality." Parents, students should be able to explain this rule to you very easily. If not, then you know that they will need some extra help with apostrophes.
After studying this grammatical concept, we then began our survey of poetry. Specifically, we discussed poetry's definition and the sonnet form.
Homework: Students are to compose an original Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnet that they will turn into class tomorrow. Students must give their work a TITLE and LABEL the sonnet at Shakespearean or Petrarchan.
Also, students need to MAKE SURE to bring their copies of A Separate Peace to class tomorrow!!
For a copy of the Poetry PowerPoint, please click here.
English 10
After studying apostrophes and their uses, students began to study the background of American Romanticism.
For a copy of the American Romanticism PowerPoint (provided courtesy of Leah Tollison) please click here.
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