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...

Fragments, Run-Ons, Movies, and Phrases

English I Honors sixth period students completed their jigsaw work on phrases, with all students how having a working knowledge of gerunds, participles, infinities, appositives, and prepositional phrases. We’ll be doing more practice in class to prepare for a...
A Letter, Some Writing, and Verbals

A Letter, Some Writing, and Verbals

English 8 Strategies students took the unexpected day in class — come on, admit it: we were all expecting to be out today — and continued with the regularly-scheduled Friday writing day. As a reminder, students need to have the following completed: Tuesday...