Article of the Week

All students began working on their first Article of the Week today. English I students worked on an article about the Congressional bill that recently passed:

Fourth-period annotations

Fifth-period annotations

English 8 is working on an article of the week about an eighteen-year-old herping fan. (They’ll be working to figure out what “herping” means.)

Sixth- and seventh-period annotations

English I (Fourth and Fifth Periods)

After the AOW work, English I students worked on their first analytic Schaffer paragraph. We’re looking at how plot and setting interact in “The Most Dangerous Game.” We came up with a few observations:

1. The setting needs to be a location that prevents escape.
2. Several technological advances of the last several decades make it difficult to move the story into the present.

Students will be choosing from these possible interpretations to create their Schaffer paragraphs.

English 8 (Sixth and Seventh Periods)

After going over their AOW, students began going over the most important tool we’ll use in writing for this class: the Schaffer model body paragraph. Using this accomplishes three things:

1. It provides a framework for effective prewriting.
2. It takes care of organization (to a large degree).
3. It helps students know what to write next.

We went over the basics of the Schaffer paragraph and then looked at an example paragraph (download here).

Homework

• English 8 Studies: none.
• English I Honors: 
  • determine which of the options we discovered in class you would like to use as the basic framework for your paragraph’s claim;
  • begin thinking what pieces of textual evidence we will use to back this up.