English 8 students began acting out The Diary of Anne Frank today. We worked on all the thought and preparation we have to go through to make sure our presentation will be accurate. We explored ideas about staging, props, and blocking. English I students finished up...
Students in English 8 began their last unit on The Diary of Anne Frank. We went through an anticipation guide to help put students in Anne’s place to see what she was facing. English I students began To Kill a Mockingbird, which will likely be our last unit. We...
20 school days left The day started with the yearly visit from Mr. Jim Bannister, a local attorney who walks the students through the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird. He helps students discover new evidence and explains the significance of the evidence. Having...
English I Honors began the new unit on Lord of the Flies by reading Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” I threw them into the text with little to no background knowledge to let them make sense of the simple narrative of the text, which they did in...
All classes are working on lit circles now: English 8 is working through the second act of Anne Frank while English I is finishing Mockingbird. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete 2.1 as needed; make sure you’re ready to do either the Somebody, the Journal, or the...
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