Voice and Assessing

Voice and Assessing

by | Sep 13, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors examined some sample paragraphs that I wrote about “The Cask of Amontillado” and evaluated them based on the project rubric. Once we debriefed as a class, students paired up again and worked to help their partner improve his/her paragraph...

Maslow, Voice, and Peer Evaluation

by | Mar 23, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies began the final stages of preparation for the ACT-Aspire test. We learned how to use a form that will help us with peer evaluation. English I Honors students continued with Lord of the Flies (fourth period) and Mockingbird (sixth period)....

Completing Jig Saws and Writing

by | Mar 20, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students had their weekly Friday writing session. We’re finishing up our argumentative writing review and will begin our ACT-Aspire test preparation shortly. Fourth period and sixth period English I Honors students finished up different jig...

Writing, a Beginning, and an End

by | Mar 17, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

For the first time in some weeks, fourth and sixth periods — both English I Honors classes — are working on the same material, but fourth period is at the beginning of Lord of the Flies while sixth period is finishing it up. English 8 Strategies students...

Writing and Project Work

by | Mar 13, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

Every class was working on some sort of project or other. Four period English I Honors worked on their Mockingbird project, which is in fact six different options students chose from. Sixth period English I Honors students worked on one of two writing assignments for...