Projects and Close Reading

English 8 students finished up their second close reading portion of Frederick Douglass’s autobiography. We worked in groups and will be debriefing/correcting tomorrow. We’ll have a small test on subordinate clauses, pronouns and antecedents, and...
Project Work and Presentations

Project Work and Presentations

English I Honors students began working on their first song for the soundtrack project: “Decoration Day.” We planned three Schaffer paragraphs (of which we will be writing two) and worked in partners fleshing things out a bit further. Notes from class are...
Final Day and 3.1

Final Day and 3.1

English I Honors had a whoosh through 3.1 of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare is starting to turn the screws increasingly tighter, making things more and more challenging for our young lovers. We’ll be starting our culminating writing project on Monday, so students...