by Mr. Scott | Sep 23, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Strategies students (fourth period) applied the skills they worked on during Monday’s and Tuesday’s classes with a partner to a new selection, an informational text about slaves and traditions they brought from Africa. English Studies students...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 17, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Studies continued with yesterday’s work on using context clues to determine a word’s meaning. We have four rules from yesterday that they began applying today: Look for synonyms/definitions Look for antonyms Look for relationship/transition words...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 10, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Strategies (fourth period) began working in earnest on the reader’s journal mini-project that goes along with the Nightjohn unit. English Studies (fifth period) began an additional enrichment project that will look at three motifs/themes in the novel:...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 9, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
All eighth-grade students took the math MAP test today, and that meant that all classes were cut to half an hour. Two days in a row of this seems like it might not be the best use of time, but consider that the whole eighth grade is done with MAP testing in two short...
by Mr. Scott | Sep 3, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English Studies finished up their group work on determining voice. We’ll be pulling it all together tomorrow. English Strategies finished their first journal entries and began the work a voice that English Studies finished up today. English I Honors students...
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