by Mr. Scott | Sep 24, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Strategies (fourth period) finished up working on a text about traditions slaves brought with them from Africa and using context clues in the text to determine what words mean. It was slower going than I anticipated because of the difficulty of the text....
by Mr. Scott | Sep 23, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Strategies students (fourth period) applied the skills they worked on during Monday’s and Tuesday’s classes with a partner to a new selection, an informational text about slaves and traditions they brought from Africa. English Studies students...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 22, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I Honors students began their final set of stories for the short story/writing about literature unit. We’ll be finishing the unit up this week and moving on to poetry. English Strategies (fourth period) worked on determining a word’s meaning from a...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 21, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Studies began working on chapter four of Nightjohn, using effective readers’ skills to interact with the text. We’ll finish up tomorrow and write our latest journal entry. English Strategies worked on using context clues to determine the meaning of...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 20, 2015 | Blog
I’m in the midst of grading English I Honors students’ second major writing assignment, and I’m very pleased with the improvement I’m seeing. I’m so impressed, in fact, that I think the assignment might have become too easy for them, so...
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