Project Work and Presentations

Project Work and Presentations

During advisory, we had our first quidditch match. English 8 students presented some of the work they’ve been doing on The Diary of Anne Frank since not everyone is completing the same work for the same scene. We also went over the coming test on the Anne Frank...
Allegory of the Lit Circles

Allegory of the Lit Circles

English I Honors began the new unit on Lord of the Flies by reading Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” I threw them into the text with little to no background knowledge to let them make sense of the simple narrative of the text, which they did in...
Algebra EOC and Lit Circles

Algebra EOC and Lit Circles

6 school days left English I students, who are mostly taking algebra this year, worked to a limited degree on their final Lord of the Flies writing assignment. Many, particularly in third period, were still working on the algebra EOC exam when class time came...
Lit Circles

Lit Circles

10 school days left English 8 and English I students continued working on their lit circles to complete their final selections of the year. English 8 students should definitely be done with the first two scenes of act 2 of The Diary of Anne Frank while English I...