English 8 students, after their starter writing (Prompt: Most people have vivid memories of certain events from childhood. What sticks out in your mind? Pick one particularly strong memory and describe it in detail.)  began learning how to work with a peer’s paper. We examined a letter from one of last year’s students to this year’s eighth grade class, looking for content gaps and grammar issues.

English I Honors students worked on their first short story, “The Sniper,” looking at the question of how the setting and plot are connected. We began with more Schaffer work (Starter prompt: Come up with two CDs for this sentence: “The speaker in ‘The Gift’ has a relationship with his father that is positive but has hints of negativity.”) before moving to our first story.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • read “The Most Dangerous Game” (page 19 in your textbook);
  • those who can, please download and print the “How to Write About Literature” handout;
  • sixth period students, think about the ending of “The Sniper” and determine why this story could not happen in World War Two or many other conflicts.