Subtext Presentations and Mixed Work

English I Honors students acted their passages from 4.1 and 4.2, presenting afterward the passages with strong subtext and explaining what the subtext was. English 8 Strategies students spent half of the class working on participation self-evaluations for the quarter...

Revision and Subtext in 4.1 and 4.2

English 8 Strategies students had another day of revising their cause/effect earthquake essays. Tomorrow we’ll spend a little time working on it, and Thursday we will spend most of the period working on it. After that, any additional work students wish to...

Revision and Subtext

English I Honors began act four of Romeo and Juliet by looking at subtext and connotation in a unique short story called “Conversation Piece” by Ned Guymon. Students were able to discern the characters, plot, back-story, and the hints of what happens after...

Planning and Inferring

First period spent their first of two planning days for the project. Second and sixth periods worked on inferences and implications, as well as the relationship between the two. We looked at a story the relies solely on inference, then turned our newly-retrained,...