Writing, Planning, and Being Detectives

Fourth period English I Honors students are nearing the conclusion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We will begin working on the culminating project shortly. Today, students analyzed the conversation between Atticus and Heck Tate in an attempt to determine what...

Writing, 24, and the Pig’s Head

English I Honors students in fourth period began a close examination of chapter twenty-four, a chapter that initially seems to have very little action but in fact is one of the most fascinating and critical chapters in the novel. We’ll continue our close look...
A Model, Tension, and Authority

A Model, Tension, and Authority

English I Honors students in fourth period returned to the passages from Mockingbird that we were working on yesterday to begin establishing, with the help of an informational text, how Harper Lee builds the tension in the courtroom scene. We’ll finish up...