English 8 Strategies students did the usual Tuesday routine: they wrote, and I consulted. Students are finishing up first drafts of argumentative writing pieces. They'll soon be deciding whether to...
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Lord of the Flies Online
Lord of the Flies is available online at the Moodle site now for anyone who needs it to help search for passages.
Busy Monday
English 8 Strategies students returned to informational texts today, looking at the fourth of five argumentative articles and examining it for claim and evidence. Fourth period English I students...
Writing and Consulting
It's Friday -- let's take a break. Sort of. Everyone was productive today. Everyone had a good day. And everyone is now ready for the weekend. Some of us will be busier than others, though.
Writing, Trusting, and Analyzing
English 8 Strategies students spent the day writing again. We'll be having three days of intense writing this week so that when we switch to two days a week next week, we'll have plenty to discuss...
Run-on Voice of Hierarchy
Fourth period English I Honors students continued looking at how Harper Lee achieves the voice of a southern genteel lady while still remaining childlike in To Kill a Mockingbird. We looked at the...
Allegory, Racism, and Writing
English 8 Strategies students re-started the bi-weekly writing session that defined much of the first semester. Tuesdays and Fridays will be writing and consultation days, and we began today with a...
New Beginnings and New Argument
English I Honors students split in two today, with fourth period beginning To Kill a Mockingbird and sixth period beginning Lord of the Flies. We'll be switching selections in a few weeks when both...
Rubric and Quiz
English I Honors students had a quiz on Romeo and Juliet -- the final quiz. We're done with R&J! English 8 Strategies students began looking at the rubric the state will use to evaluate their...
One and Only Planning and More Planning
English 8 Strategies returned to some preparatory work for the ACT-Aspire test in April. We're working to get some procedures for the test in place and in mind so that we can simply practice them --...
Practice Planning and Sentence Fragments Redux
English 8 Strategies students worked on identifying and correcting sentence fragments. We'll have one more day of practice next week with first period and probably two more days with fifth period....
Searching for Evidence and a Tough Prompt
English I Honors finished up (almost) all our work on fate and Romeo and Juliet in general with a short look at how to deal with some of the insane prompts they'll encounter in high school. We went...
