by Mr. Scott | Nov 16, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
We had our first TDA practice test today. Since we were all writing ourselves silly (literally for hours) and only had 30 minutes of class, we sent our meager class time outside. HomeworkEnglish 8: work on No Red Ink for commonly confused words (as necessary);...
by Mr. Scott | Nov 15, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English 8 students worked on the last text structure of our short unit, the spacial text structure. We practiced with an established text, determining some of the keywords and noting how some keywords are suspiciously ordinary words: Afterward, we finished our plan...
by Mr. Scott | Nov 14, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
English I and English 8 students went over the coming TDA, planning a bit how to attack Thursday’s prompt. We, of course, did not go over the actual prompt but discussed how to attack a prompt in general, how to see how many body paragraphs a given prompt would...
by Mr. Scott | May 11, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
15 school days left We had our second day of ELA testing day. The kids took the day off due to the difficulty of the...
by Mr. Scott | May 9, 2023 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
17 school days left Today, all students took the SC-Ready writing test. The kids on our team were focused and worked hard. They wrote about…the topic — whatever that was. Not testing violation here! We’ll return to our regularly scheduled...
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