1.1 Complete and Comp Lab Writing

by | Nov 5, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students completed act one scene one of Romeo and Juliet, acting and analyzing the passage for characters’ emotions (for tone of voice in reading/acting) and hidden stage instructions like in Romeo’s  words to Benvolio (key passage...

Text Elements and First Acting

by | Nov 3, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students looked at last week’s readings examining them for text elements and specific text structures. We re-marked the text and analyzed it. English I Honors students looked at a long exchange between Benvolio and Montague as an initial...

Quick Recap

by | Oct 31, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

It’s Friday — I’ve been working on the Hughes site for the last hour, so forgive me for the non-update. Homework only today! HomeworkEnglish I Honors: read pages 812 and 813. Be prepared to read these as we read in class, with full emotion...
1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

by | Oct 30, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students did work on writing craft today, returning to sentence variety and adding a new type of sentence to our repertoire. As we begin working toward our major second-quarter project, we’ll be including these new sentences in our work....
Prologue and Lab Work

Prologue and Lab Work

by | Oct 29, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students began Romeo and Juliet proper, looking at the prologue, which to their surprise, turned out to be a sonnet. Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil...