Fragments, Run-Ons, Movies, and Phrases

English I Honors sixth period students completed their jigsaw work on phrases, with all students how having a working knowledge of gerunds, participles, infinities, appositives, and prepositional phrases. We’ll be doing more practice in class to prepare for a...

Taboo, Run-ons, and a Tough Topic

English 8 Strategies students turned to grammar, it being Wednesday, practicing correcting run-on sentences after learning to identify them last week. We’ll finish this and Monday’s lesson up tomorrow, then move to a combination of fragments and run-ons...

Run-on Voice of Hierarchy

Fourth period English I Honors students continued looking at how Harper Lee achieves the voice of a southern genteel lady while still remaining childlike in To Kill a Mockingbird. We looked at the following stylistic and topical elements Long sentences Diversions...

Testing and Run-on Sentences

We had a day of testing, but the upside is that the Explore test — a two-and-a-half hour, four-subject marathon test — is over. As a result, we didn’t have first or second period. Fourth period worked on revising their Antigone analysis papers. We...