Sick Day

15 As I was out for family illness, I can only write what the plans were for the day: first and fourth periods were to continue their characterization projects and then switch to the research project as the finish; second and seventh periods were to continue reading...

Monster

17 In first and fourth periods today, they started on a project, that is due tomorrow, about how Dickens develops the different characters in his novels. Today second and seventh period were reading more of the book Monster they also acted it out. HomeworkEnglish I...
Foreshadowing and Courtroom Vocab

Foreshadowing and Courtroom Vocab

19 First and fourth periods began the day looking at three sentences from Great Expectations, determining phrases, independent clauses, and (as needed) subordinate clauses. Afterward, we began, ahead of schedule, a couple of days’ work on foreshadowing in...

Skimming and Clauses And Point of Views

Today first period finished up learning about clauses by looking at new types of sentences: complex sentences.  In fourth, they learned how to quickly skim the “Mr. Scott way.”  This will help the students to read Great Expectations more easily and...