Gallery Walk Peer Editing

Gallery Walk Peer Editing

by | Apr 13, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

38 school days left It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then, almost all classes (with the exception of creative writing) do exactly the same work. Today was such a day. Everyone worked on anonymously evaluating each other’s practice tests from...

Practice Test

by | Apr 10, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

All students took a practice ACT-Aspire writing test today. We’ll be doing another one next week and a final one the following week as we prepare for the actual test on 28 April. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: fourth period students need to assess their first...

Testing Review for All

by | Apr 8, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

All classes worked on preparing for the ACT-Aspire test. English I Honors students went over the battle plan that English 8 Strategies students began working earlier this week. We’ll be spending the rest of the week in all classes working on this....

Practice and Almost Practice

by | Apr 7, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Students in English I spent a final day working on projects before we start a three-day overview of the coming ACT-Aspire test. English 8 Strategies students continued with the practice that English I Honors students will soon be starting. HomeworkEnglish I...

Test Prep, Till, and Society

by | Apr 6, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Fourth period English I Honors students began the second writing assignment for Lord of the Flies. Students will be using five principles of sociology to examine the following passage: Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space...