English I Honors students finished up the Odyssey unit with a Socratic Seminar about whether or not Odysseus is a hero. The discussions will be available in a password protected post shortly: the...
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Concluding and Continuing
English I Honors students are finishing up the Odyssey with some writing and a Socratic Seminar tomorrow looking at the question of whether or not Odysseus is indeed a hero. English 8 Strategies and...
Lit Circles and Presentations
English I Honors completed yesterday's work with the final excerpts from the Odyssey. We'll be finishing up the unit this week. English 8 Strategies and Studies both held lit circles for the...
New Start, New Poem, Old Epic
English 8 Strategies (fourth period) students began The Glory Field today. It's a seven-generation story about the struggles and triumphs of an African American family in South Carolina and is part...
Out Sick
I was out sick today. We will return to regularly scheduled programming Monday. English I Honors students, don't forget to work on your Romeo and Juliet projects, which will be due on Monday evening...
MAP Spring 2016 Day 2
Eighth graders finished up the MAP test today. We'll be returning to normal programming tomorrow. English Studies and Strategies students worked on logic puzzles instead of forging ahead with new...
Article Practice and More
English 8 Studies and Strategies both went over some additional steps for annotating the article of the week. Afterward, Strategies went over yesterday's test while Studies did some practice...
A Test, a Quiz, and More
English 8 Strategies students had a test on the MAP preparation work they completed over the last few days. We'll be starting a new unit as soon as MAP testing is over this week. English 8 Studies...
Practice Test, Wrapping Up, and Turning In
English I Honors had time to complete a final check of their work for the Romeo and Juliet project before turning it in. English 8 Studies had their final day of literature circles for the first...
Cyclops, Figurative Language, and Lit Circles
English 8 Studies (fifth period) continued working on the first round of their lit circles. We'll be finishing up tomorrow and debriefing to decide how to change up the groups before moving on to...
Odyssey, Lit Circles, and Figurative Language Practice
English 8 Strategies continued with their MAP review, practicing again with some figurative language practice. We'll finish up tomorrow before having a bit of review for a small test (covering the...
Figurative Language, Poetry, and Calypso
English I Honors finished up a bit of work on Calypso, looking at two additional renditions and a short informational text about the etymology of her name. Afterward, students did a bit of comparing...
