Quick Recap

by | Oct 31, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

It’s Friday — I’ve been working on the Hughes site for the last hour, so forgive me for the non-update. Homework only today! HomeworkEnglish I Honors: read pages 812 and 813. Be prepared to read these as we read in class, with full emotion...
1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

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

English 8 Strategies students did work on writing craft today, returning to sentence variety and adding a new type of sentence to our repertoire. As we begin working toward our major second-quarter project, we’ll be including these new sentences in our work....
Sound Devices and Complex Sentences

Sound Devices and Complex Sentences

by | Oct 1, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students worked today on sentence variety since it’s Wednesday (and we all know what Wednesday means: writer’s craft!), and both classes had an excellent session as we looked at complex sentences and how to form them. I’d like...
Advice and a Quiz

Advice and a Quiz

by | Sep 24, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students finished the first poetry lesson, a two-and-a-half-day lesson (though only planned as a two-day lesson) covering the EQ “How is poetry different from other forms of writing?” We returned to Collins’s poem “Introduction...
Socratic Firsts and Sentence Practice

Socratic Firsts and Sentence Practice

by | Sep 11, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 students worked on their sentence work for the week. We’re learning how to craft sentences that begin with participial phrases. This slideshow requires JavaScript. We had some practice as a class and as pairs, creating some masterful sentences: For...