Posted on 27. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
This week, I provide you with one of the shortest and most beautiful poems in the American canon, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
Posted on 24. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
Last week’s vocabulary test was pretty simple, so we’re going to shake it up a bit this week. This week’s Grammar Challenge is going to be a combo meal of punctuation fun! We’re going big with this one: compound-complex sentences with both adverb and adjective clauses!
Posted on 20. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
Your weekly poetry assignment is nigh! We’re going back a little further in time with this one, but we are staying in the realm of old, white, English guys (don’t worry, we’ll mix it up soon enough): William Blake’s, “A Poison Tree.”
Posted on 15. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
Welcome to the wonderful world of appositives. The good news is that you’re already using appositives. The really good news is that now you’re going to learn how to do it right!
Posted on 12. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! Study, write an essay, and memorize William Ernest Henley’s, “Invictus.”
Posted on 08. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
Now that you have seen your graded results, do you feel like you could have done better on the HW: Short Story – Write the Story (Part 5)? Here’s your chance to prove it. If you failed to get a perfect score in the Grammar category and/or the Sentence Identification category, you have a shot at redemption.
Posted on 07. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Out of the shallows, the almighty compound-complex sentence rears it’s ugly head once again! That’s right ladies and gentleman: it’s back!
Posted on 01. May, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
You must conduct five reading sessions each week. We will conduct at least three of these reading sessions during class. During our reading sessions, you will have time to work on both your Reading Log and your Vocabulary Bookmark.
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
For this assignment, you will be gathering and arranging all your short story materials, making your final edit, printing a final copy, and posting your final copy to AISBlogPals.com.
Posted on 23. Apr, 2012 by Mr. Clements.
An introductory element is any word or group of words that precedes the main clause. When you have an introductory element, you put a comma after it. In this week’s grammar challenge, you will create introductory elements using one or more prepositional phrases.