2.1 and Social Class

13 school days left English I students worked on the penultimate group of 10 chapters in Great Expectations.  We’re examining how Dickens’s development of characters reveals something about his views of social class. The groups spent the day comparing...

A Test and Test Prep

15 school days left English I Honors kids are still working toward complete EOC prep for next week’s test. At the same time, we’re working on Great Expectations and the effect of point of view on the narrative. We’ll be finishing much of this up...

Finishing Up POV

17 school days left English I Honors students finished up the initial step in our work on point of view in Great Expectations. We’ll be working on it next week a bit more. English 8 students will have a test on Tuesday on the first act of The Diary of Anne...

Point of View and Gifts

18 school days left English I students continued with Great Expectation by asking the question of how the point of view affects our view of the narrator’s life. Specifically, students used four questions to guide their thinking: What is the point of view in...