1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

by | Oct 30, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students did work on writing craft today, returning to sentence variety and adding a new type of sentence to our repertoire. As we begin working toward our major second-quarter project, we’ll be including these new sentences in our work....
Puns and Tempers

Puns and Tempers

by | Nov 14, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods looked at how and why Shakespeare used questionable humor in his plays. We looked at the first 30 lines to determine how Shakespeare uses puns to create an opening that appealed to the groundlings in the Globe Theater. Second and seventh...
Courage, and Act I, Scene 1

Courage, and Act I, Scene 1

by | Jan 4, 2013 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First and fifth periods began the final project of the second quarter. We looked at a common thread in our discussions of heroes from the beginning of the quarter: most students had identified “courage” as one of the attributes of a hero, so we began the...