Our English Class

This site is now on summer break, as you should be as well.

Cousins in the grass

Enjoy the break. See you in August.

Tags: vacation

Here’s wishing everyone a happy, safe summer.

Seventh graders, I’ll see you next year…

Eighth Grade Day 2009

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Today was the final Friday of the 2008/9 school year. Everyone is certainly relieved, students and teachers alike.

Exams start Monday: sixth period has its exam.

Tags: exam

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Students will be returning their literature books tomorrow. Lost books must be paid for with cash.

Tags: administrative

To my surprise, this little WordPress site was selected as one of Greenville County Schools’ “Best of the Web” for 2008/9. I get a snazzy image to display on the site:

2008/9 Best of the Web

I’m honored at the recognition, and embarrassed that, at this point, I haven’t been keeping up as regularly as I should have.

Tags: site

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Fourth and sixth periods worked on a cloze activity dealing with one of the attorney’s closing statements in Monster. It was a lot of fun, especially in sixth period: I assisted students by giving them riddles that contained the answers to the particular blanks that were stumping them. Epiphanies galore.

Tags: Monster, Myers

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All classes are now working on Monster, even English I. With only a few days remaining, I decided English I should get a break, so to speak.

As such, there’s no homework, for anyone.

Tags: Monster, Myers

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Second period worked on transitions and powerful verbs. We used two famous short stories — “The Interlopers” and “The Most Dangerous Game” — to look at how an author’s use of powerful verbs can improve the writing by providing sensory details

First, fourth, and sixth periods worked on Monster.

Homework

None.

Tags: Interlopers, Monster, Most Dangerous Game, Myers

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First and second periods didn’t have class today due to pass testing.

Fourth and sixth periods really started getting into the meaty part of Monster. We had a few people testify and the kids are all excited about the book — an English teacher’s dream. It’s an excellent book for teaching students to read carefully and pick up the implications of what’s being said, and what’s not being said.

Tags: Monster, Myers, PASS

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First period was able to go back to the computer lab to work on the Much Ado About Nothing projects. Additionally, some students should be finishing up their final drafts for the film review. It will count as late work, but that’s better than nothing.

Second period completed their practice with the MLA citation format. The research project will be due the Tuesday after this coming long weekend.

Fourth and sixth periods began reading Walter Dean Myers’ Monster.

Homework

• First period: review (if not already completed).
• Second period: Victorian England project.
• Fourth and sixth periods: none.

Tags: Monster, Much Ado About Nothing, Myers, Shakespeare, works cited

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First and second period didn’t meet because we were having the ELA pass test. Students later said it went fairly well.

Fourth and sixth periods had the first take of their Much Ado About Nothing scenes. We filmed the first take and will do one more day of filming. I’ll be using those takes to give students a grade. Here is the rubric for the project.

Tags: Much Ado About Nothing, PASS, PASS test, Shakespeare

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Fourth and sixth periods went through their final rehearsals before filming. Second period had their final day of research, and first period worked on their animations.

Homework

• First period: review due at the end of the week.
• Second period: dialogue due at the end of the week.

Tags: Dickens, Great Expectations, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare

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