Practice and Close Reading

Practice and Close Reading

English 8 Strategies began preparation for a test next week on the three sentence-combining strategies we’ve been working on for the past several weeks. We’ll be doing more practice tomorrow and Friday. English I Honors students finished up their Queen Mab...

Queen Mab and Revising

English 8 Strategies students worked in the computer lab today, editing each others’ work before using their suggestions to revise their own work. English I Honors began a close reading of the Queen Mab passage in Romeo and Juliet. O, then, I see Queen Mab hath...
Love, Marriage, and Details

Love, Marriage, and Details

English 8 Strategies students looked at how to add details to their writing. We began with a bit of modeling before moving on to some pair practice. English I Honors worked with Romeo and Juliet some more, looking at the first three scenes to determine how various...

Catch-up

Today turned out to be a bit of a catch-up day for most classes, though it wasn’t initially planned to be such. English 8 Strategies went over some homework we were supposed to cover Wednesday but that got pushed to today because of the availability of the...

Finalizing First Drafts and Comparing

RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). English I Honors...