English 8 students had a Socratic Seminar as the initiation of our newest and last substantial unit. We looked at a few questions about being a hero:

1. What is it?
2. What does a hero do?
3. Who can be a hero?
4. What sets a hero apart from “normal” people?
5. What are some characteristics of a hero?

First, though, we went over this week’s article of the week.

English I Honors students began the beast: Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. We’re working on the first chapter as we endeavor to answer the EQ, “How do I understand Dickens’s long sentences.” We looked at two today.

We’ll finish up the sentence work tomorrow before moving on to the chapter work.

We’re almost there, kiddos!

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete the text annotation we began in class;
  • begin working on the Great Expectations vocab;
  • look at  the Dickens Biography resource; and
  • play the Dickens’ London game.