Work Day and New Unit

Work Day and New Unit

English 8 students finished up the Halloween unit on “The Tell-Tale Heart” and started a new short unit on poetry, specifically focusing on figurative language. We went through a Pear Deck to assess students’ thoughts and preconceptions about poetry...
Irony Walk and Participles

Irony Walk and Participles

English 8 students began a short unit on irony and its use in fiction to heighten tension, specifically in horror stories. We’ll be studying Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” to look at how Poe uses all three forms of irony — situational,...

Science Benchmark and Quick Work

Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter science benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. In English I Honors we went over prepositional phrases to solve any misunderstandings from the IXL work on that topic. In English 8 we spent time on IXL...