Sentence Types and Inferring Word Meaning

Sentence Types and Inferring Word Meaning

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

First period learned about clauses. Students learned about the two types of clauses, independent and dependent, and then looked at some practice exercises from the writing textbook. Today, fourth period began with a PASS review, and then began our study of the types...
First Lines and Choices

First Lines and Choices

by | Apr 21, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth periods began preparing to read Great Expectations, our next novel. We read an excerpt from chapter 1, and learned the two types of sentences that Charles Dickens, the author of Great Expectations, likes to use the most. This week, students will begin...

Sentence Types and Presentations

by | Apr 10, 2013 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First and fifth periods went through their presentations for Mary Todd Lincoln. Students presented their findings and then evaluated other groups’ presentations. Second and fourth periods worked on sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)...
Charlie, Review, and Audience

Charlie, Review, and Audience

by | Apr 12, 2012 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First period began with a vocabulary starter, using the verb “obscure” in a sentence. Example sentences included: The teacher was standing in front of me and was obscuring the board. I tried to obscure the broken lamp, but my mother found it anyway. Afterward,...