Finishing Up Projects

5 school days left English I Honors students are finishing up their final projects. (See below.) English 8 Strategies students finished up their final project today. Finally, the rubric for the letter to next year’s students (the final assignment for...

Letters to Next Year’s Students

English I Honors students, remember that you’ll be completing your final, and in some ways most enjoyable, task of the year: letters to next year’s English I Honors students. Please remember that you will not be able to bring notes into the classroom; you...

Homework Update

I didn’t have a chance to update the site yesterday due to an after-school meeting. English I Honors students remember your work over the weekend! (I know — I’m a cruel taskmaster.) Fourth period: you’ve got to get one paragraph assessed and...
Close Reading and Narrative Writing

Close Reading and Narrative Writing

English 8 Strategies students continued with their narratives. We should be completely done with the preparatory work by tomorrow, though many students are already done. We’ll spend next week writing the narratives and revising them. Fourth period English I...
Full Return

Full Return

With English I Honors students having their End of Course Exam behind them now (what a relief for them, I know), we returned to business as usual. Fourth period students finished a round-up of all the work they completed while I was out. We had two writing assignments...