Background and Analysis

Background and Analysis

by | Oct 28, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students continued with the new writing focus, cause-and-effect writing. While I planned the lesson to last one day, it really needed two days to complete properly, so we’ll drop Tuesday’s planned lesson and move it to a later date....
Cause and Effect and Introducing Billy

Cause and Effect and Introducing Billy

by | Oct 27, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students began an extensive unit on Romeo and Juliet. We began by reviewing the basics of an argument and looking at a New York Times article about the impact Shakespeare has had and why we still read him today. English 8 Strategies students began the...

Sonnets and Drafts

by | Oct 22, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students continued working on their drafts from yesterday. We’ll be coming back to them later this week. English I Honors students finished up reading sonnets and doing some inductive reasoning, determining general characteristics of sonnets...
First Topics and Sonnets

First Topics and Sonnets

by | Oct 21, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors classes are working towards the Shakespeare unit, which we will begin next week, and we are accomplishing this through Shakespeare’s sonnets as a way to bring the poetry unit to the Romeo and Juliet unit. Today we finished up the complicated...

Sonnets and Exposition

by | Oct 20, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students worked on their first exposure to Shakespeare in class, reading “Sonnet 29” in preparation for our new unit on Romeo and Juliet. When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble...