by Mr. Scott | Nov 8, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students almost finished up tone with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” identifying passages that serve as evidence for our established tone of frantic paranoia. We’ll finish up tomorrow. English I Honors students looked carefully at their blocking...
by Mr. Scott | Nov 7, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students worked on tone with “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Today we determined the tone; tomorrow, we’ll be looking at the story for textual evidence to back up our assertions about the tone. English I Honors students began looking at all the...
by Mr. Scott | Nov 2, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
In English I, we began Shakespeare proper (1.1.1-30) and discovered that it begins with a little surprise, not entirely pleasant — a good lesson in the unpredictability of Shakespeare. English 8 students returned to their Friday inference work. HomeworkEnglish 8...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 31, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students continued with a short unit on irony and “The Tell-Tale Heart” for Halloween. We’ll be finishing it up early next week. English I Honors students went over the poetry test briefly, had a bit of an introduction to Shakespeare as...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 29, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I students had the quarter 1 benchmark test. It took the whole period, and it will require some more time tomorrow as well. We’ll be taking another benchmark at the end of the first semester, then a final one at the end of the third quarter. Each one...
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