English 8 Strategies students returned to informational texts today, looking at the fourth of five argumentative articles and examining it for claim and evidence.

Fourth period English I students continued with To Kill a Mockingbird by practicing argumentative thinking and writing with a short mini-project based on the case of Emmett Till and the role his brutal murder played in the Civil Rights movement. We’ll be continuing this tomorrow.

Sixth period English I students continued working on Lord of the Flies. We had a vocabulary quiz before looking at the rubric for the on-going writing project we’ll be doing for the unit. In addition, we went briefly over the sentence variety element of the rubric and a couple of the sentence types within that.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • fourth period: read through chapter 8 by Wednesday;
  • sixth period: read through chapter 4 by Wednesday;
  • all students: continue working on the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack project (due 17 February).