English I Honors examined some sample paragraphs that I wrote about “The Cask of Amontillado” and evaluated them based on the project rubric. Once we debriefed as a class, students paired up again and worked to help their partner improve his/her paragraph by applying the things we’d just learned about topic sentences and other Schaffer elements to the students’ individual paragraphs.

English 8 students finished up a few days of looking at voice in Nightjohn by making some “rules” for anyone who wanted to talk like Sarny.

Afterward, we had our ten minutes of independent reading.

Homework

• English 8: complete the article of the week as needed.
• English I Honors: 
  • complete the Schaffer paragraph for “The Cask of Amontillado” for turn in tomorrow;
  • complete the article of the week as needed.