Finishing Schaffer and Kindness

English I Honors students finished up their first-week introduction to the Schaffer model. We’ll begin applying it to some basic literary analysis next week. English 8 students (both Strategies and Studies) finished up the literature portion of our first STEAM...
Annotations and Schaffer

Annotations and Schaffer

English 8 students began a reading/annotation assignment that will allow me to gauge their abilities and skills in order to determine which skills we need to focus on this year. English I Honors students began working on the famous Schaffer model — famous among...

First Day 2015

What a great first day! Every class was focused, did great work singly and in groups, and showed great motivation — a great day to be at Hughes. Journalism tackled the tricky questions of what journalism actually is and what news is. It was a little trickier...

Twitter Test

My feed to Twitter has not worked since February, and I just now realized it. This is a test to see if I fixed it.