by Mr. Scott | Aug 31, 2022 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
Fourth and Fifth Periods English I students began their reading instruction in earnest today by learning a few techniques to help them get through tough sentences a little more fluidly. We learned the initial ideas behind bracketing/chunking sentences to make long,...
by Mr. Scott | Apr 7, 2022 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students worked today on analyzing dialogue to determine a number of things: First: Second: Third: We also created a timeline of the play thus far: English I students went over subordinate clauses a little before making final preparations for...
by Mr. Scott | Mar 28, 2022 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students began a new unit today on the Diary of Anne Frank, our final major reading selection for the year. We began with an anticipation lesson designed to get students empathetic to Anne Frank’s situation and the dangers she faced as the Nazis took...
by Mr. Scott | Mar 26, 2021 | English I Honors, Update
We began today going over the AOW that I handed back today. We looked specifically at the following words: concede redolent fraught exclave utopic In addition, we went over a little geography to show how such background knowledge could have helped students figure out...
by Mr. Scott | Mar 11, 2021 | English I Honors, Update
Today, after the phrase quiz, we worked on using phrases and clauses together to break sentences down into constituent parts. If the sentence is the base unit, then the next smallest unit would be the clause followed by the phrase. That was the extent of our breakdown...
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