Poe and Voice

Poe and Voice

English 8 students continued finished up chapter one of Nightjohn by looking at voice. We’ll be pulling everything together tomorrow. English I Honors students began looking at Poe’s “A Cask of Amontillado” as the primary document for their...

Busy Monday

English 8 Strategies students returned to informational texts today, looking at the fourth of five argumentative articles and examining it for claim and evidence. Fourth period English I students continued with To Kill a Mockingbird by practicing argumentative...

Finishing, Squared

English 8 Strategies students finished yesterday’s test and took a bit of time to see where we’re going in the next few weeks. English I Honors students finished up the first act of Romeo and Juliet. We’ll have the quiz tomorrow. HomeworkEnglish I...

Argument and Test Prep

English 8 Honors completed a couple of days of test prep for Wednesday’s test on sentence combining. English I Honors students looked at Romeo’s and Juliet’s meeting to determine how Romeo was using argumentative reasoning when he approached Juliet....

Catch-up

Today turned out to be a bit of a catch-up day for most classes, though it wasn’t initially planned to be such. English 8 Strategies went over some homework we were supposed to cover Wednesday but that got pushed to today because of the availability of the...