English I Honors worked on speed reading today. Sort of. We went over a few ways to determine whether one needs to read carefully a given passage of Dickens or one needs merely to skim the passage. English 8 students finished the second scene of The Diary of Anne...
English I Honors students went over the second general plan that Dickens uses for his chapters in Great Expectations. Students in English 8 students took a break from the play today since we had a shortened class due to reward day in order to look at an online...
English 8 students began acting out The Diary of Anne Frank in class with sometimes-comic results. We were working on close reading of the text — really close reading, it turned out. We’ll finish up tomorrow. English I Honors students worked on the second...
English I Honors students completed a two-day look at how Dickens builds his sentences. English 8 students went through an activity designed to raise their awareness of what happened to the Jews of Europe during World War 2 in preparation for reading The Diary of Anne...
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: What is it? What does a hero do? Who can be a hero? What sets a hero apart from “normal” people? What are some...
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