English I students continued their parts of speech review, going over pronouns today and learning about things like antecedents and relative pronouns. Afterward, we worked on our “Magi”/”Necklace” paragraphs, making sure we have strong topic...
English I students worked on a brief parts of speech overview that we’ll be conducting alongside the regular unit we’re working on, which right now is the short story unit. After a brief review of nouns, focusing a bit on the trickiness of identifying...
English I students conducted a Socratic seminar about the short stories “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi.” We used the more formal paired alignment of the Socratic seminar, which we will use later in the year for more formal...
English I students went over their first major writing assignment on “The Cask of Amontillado” and whether or not we can trust the narrative despite the narrator being a confessed murderer. (We can — the “confessed” part is the key.) Afterward, we began going over our...
All classes took a bit of a break from English while Mrs. Torlay, one of our counselors, explained to everyone what the IGP (Individual Graduation Plan) will look like. HomeworkEnglish 8: prepare for the test on Friday over our first two stories (Story 1 is here...
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