Presentations and Prep

Presentations and Prep

18 school days left Tomorrow, we’ll be taking the SC Ready TDA writing test — one of the things we’ve been preparing for all year. To that end, we spent a little time talking about our game plan for tomorrow. Afterward, English I students had...
Project Work and Presentations

Project Work and Presentations

During advisory, we had our first quidditch match. English 8 students presented some of the work they’ve been doing on The Diary of Anne Frank since not everyone is completing the same work for the same scene. We also went over the coming test on the Anne Frank...
Allegory of the Lit Circles

Allegory of the Lit Circles

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...
Lit Circles and Performances

Lit Circles and Performances

English I students performed their skits about the three stories at the end of Mockingbird: what Atticus thinks happened; what Atticus and Heck Tate are eventually going to tell the town happened; what really happened. We’ll be finishing up the novel next week....