by Mr. Scott | Nov 13, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students began their new unit, which will be a non-fiction unit on The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective Teens. We began today with a Pear Deck session on bad habits some teens might have: Habit 1: Blame and React Habit 2: Begin With No End in Mind Habit 3:...
by Mr. Scott | Nov 27, 2017 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I students worked on the Queen Mab passage in Romeo and Juliet. “O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of...
by Mr. Scott | Jan 17, 2017 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students began looking at the EQ “What does figurative language add to a poem?” We did some schaffolded work with figurative language: English I students looked at an informational text about archaeological studies of the city of Troy in order to...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 6, 2016 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
Everyone on the eighth-grade hall took the reading MAP test today, which resulted in shorted class periods — thirty minutes to be exact. All classes went over the first article of the week that they received back. English I Honors students looked at their first...
by Mr. Scott | Mar 9, 2015 | English I Honors, Update
English 8 Strategies students, having completed five Mondays of argument analysis, spent the first part of the class consolidating their work into a graphic organizer as we begin to use the work for a larger project regarding the boundary between childhood and...
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