Balcony and Applied Outlines

English 8 students began applying their summarizing and outlining skills to a short chapter in The Seven Habits of Effective Teens. We’ll be working on this through winter break. English I Honors students began the balcony scene, making it through the first few...

Friday Work and Practice Test

English I Honors students worked on a practice test before the first Romeo and Juliet test Monday. A quick way to study: Re-read the whole act. You should be able to do this in half an hour. Review the scenes on which we focused in class for blocking/stage...

Scene 5 and Summarizing

English 8 students began working on an extended exercise with standard RI-6.1: “Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their development.” Today we reviewed briefly how to create a...
Habits and Mab Close Read

Habits and Mab Close Read

English 8 students continued an anticipation activity designed to prepare students for our new unit, which will focus on Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. We used a graphic organizer for a series of small-group brainstorming sessions to...