Here's today's recap:

English 8

In continuing our conversation about poetic devices, we learned about onomatopoeia, hyperbole, and understatement. Our entire list so far includes these three devices as well as idiom, alliteration, assonance, and consonance. These are types of poetic devices that are used to draw the reader's attention.

English 9 and 9 Honors

After meeting Scout, her brother Jem, and their summertime neighbor Dill, we've learned a bit of the mystery surrounding the Radley house and its mysterious occupant, Boo. In chapter 2, Scout begins school, and she has some trouble with her teacher, Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline doesn't like that Scout already knows how to read and write (in cursive, no less), and she lost her temper at last when Scout tried to explain to Miss Caroline about Walter Cunningham being poor and not being able to accept money from her. Scout is very unsure about school now that she's gotten through her first morning.