English I students began working on their short story unit, looking today at how a story's setting might be tied to its conflict. We read "The Sniper" and made a few observations about how the...
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First Day 2023
Students in fifth and sixth periods worked on Schaffer paragraphs, the model we will use throughout the year. Sixth- and seventh- period students worked on observing and inferring. Unfortunately, I...
End of the 2022/2023 School Year
That's it -- we're done. No more dress code. No more worrying about cell phones. No more tests, quizzes, or homework (from me, anyway). No more Articles of the Week (from me, anyway). No more...
Eighth-Grade Day
Almost done -- today we had the final bash of the year, eighth-grade day. Of course, there's rewards day tomorrow, but it doesn't have a water slide! [gallery type="rectangular"...
Presentations
Final day of actual work
Winding Down
We're just about done with everything. My grades are done, and so am I. Any homework listed below is solely the function of site automation: we won't have anymore homework because grades are done....
Finishing Anne
English 8 finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank today and examined how the story arcs back to the opening scene. While we have finished reading the actual text, we'll be working on the play in...
Catching our Breaths
Due to the tragedy here at Hughes, students took the day to catch their breath, emotionally speaking. We'll get back to work Monday.
ELA Day 2
We had our second day of ELA testing day. The kids took the day off due to the difficulty of the test.
Anne Frank and Flies
English 8 continued on Anne Frank; English I continued on Lord of the Flies. Presentations are coming soon. The second session for ELA testing will be tomorrow. Homework is the same as yesterday and...
ELA Session 1
Today, all students took the SC-Ready writing test. The kids on our team were focused and worked hard. They wrote about...the topic -- whatever that was. Not testing violation here! We'll return to...
Presentations and Prep
Tomorrow, we'll be taking the SC Ready TDA writing test -- one of the things we've been preparing for all year. To that end, we spent a little time talking about our game plan for tomorrow....