AOW Debrief

AOW Debrief

English I Honors students debriefed their first Article of the Week assignment, which I handed back today. We went over the three required annotations I checked. We basically covered appositives, but we didn’t officially name them: we’ll do that when we...
Final Schaffer Writing

Final Schaffer Writing

English I students began by looking at their article of the week to get some more practice on what exactly I expect students to do for the required context-clue words. We worked to determine context clues for “depleted.” Afterward, we embarked on a short...
Projects and Ink

Projects and Ink

English I students began the Romeo and Juliet project in earnest, looking at how the song “Decoration Day” has similarities to the action of 3.1 in the play. The link for the English I class recording (periods 3 and 4) is here. The notes are here. The...
Media Center and Discussion

Media Center and Discussion

All students went to the media center today for the yearly orientation session. English I students afterward went over “In the Family” and determined that it was not in fact a valid interpretation to suggest that the narrator suffers from schizophrenia....