Argument and Test Prep

by | Nov 17, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Honors completed a couple of days of test prep for Wednesday’s test on sentence combining. English I Honors students looked at Romeo’s and Juliet’s meeting to determine how Romeo was using argumentative reasoning when he approached Juliet....
Advice and a Quiz

Advice and a Quiz

by | Sep 24, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students finished the first poetry lesson, a two-and-a-half-day lesson (though only planned as a two-day lesson) covering the EQ “How is poetry different from other forms of writing?” We returned to Collins’s poem “Introduction...
Socratic Firsts and Sentence Practice

Socratic Firsts and Sentence Practice

by | Sep 11, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 students worked on their sentence work for the week. We’re learning how to craft sentences that begin with participial phrases. This slideshow requires JavaScript. We had some practice as a class and as pairs, creating some masterful sentences: For...