First Lines and Choices

First Lines and Choices

by | Apr 21, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods began preparing to read Great Expectations, our next novel. We read an excerpt from chapter 1, and learned the two types of sentences that Charles Dickens, the author of Great Expectations, likes to use the most. This week, students will begin...

Works Cited and Victorian England

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

First and fourth periods are now preparing to read Great Expectations. Today, we covered what life was like in Victorian England (mid 1800s). On the side, we also had an “April Fool’s” joke by Mr. Scott, telling us that we must write a 3000 word...

Bibliographies and Debates

by | May 17, 2013 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

13 school days left First and fifth periods completed W. D. Myers’ Monster with a debate today on whether or not the main character, Steve Harmon, actually received a just sentence. We’ll be turning Monday to your final project, a personal narrative...