Welcome to the new school year, your eighth-grade year, the final year at Hughes. I am excited about this coming year and the plans I and other teachers have made to help you improve your reading...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
The End, 2019 Edition
We came to an end today -- the 2018/19 school year finished today, and once again we had some tears, lots of hugging, and a few smiles. Good luck to all those finishing middle school and heading on...
Next to Last Day 2019
Today, we had our penultimate day of the 2018/2019 school year. I gave a couple of students our classroom camera and sent them around the eighth-grade hall. Tomorrow we'll be having eighth-grade...
Dodgeball
Today was an out-of-the-ordinary day: students only went to their first two periods (related arts) before coming back on the hall for some time signing yearbooks followed by a dodge-ball tournament...
Letter to Next Year
English I students completed their final assignment -- the letter to next year's students. English 8 students finished the Diary of Anne Frank project. We're done!
Finishing Flies, Almost Finishing Anne
English I Honors students went over the final bit of Lord of the Flies. English 8 students almost finished the Anne Frank acting project.
End of Final Full Week
Today marked the end of the final full week of school. Next week opens with Memorial Day, and while we should probably all be pausing at some point to think about those who died in the service of...
SC-PASS 2019
We had the science SC-PASS test today. We were on a three-hour delay schedule, so all the classes afterward were only half an hour. Still, we did the best we could with the time we had. English I...
Math Testing for 2019
The SC-Ready Mathematics exam was today from 8:30 to 11:30. Due to this, all classes were only half an hour long. English I classes worked on their Lord of the Flies writing assignments, and English...
EOC Reading
English I Honors students had the second part of the EOC today, which was the reading portion of the test. We're close to done with the entire course, so students are starting to get excited. The...
Lord of the Flies and Anne Frank
English I Honors students tackled one of the most confusing passages of Lord of the Flies: the scene in which the pig head talks to Simon. At the beginning of the class, an informal, five-finger...
Carowinds
Today, I accompanied the eighth grade to Carowinds. Needless to say, it meant we didn't do anything very English-related except for the chatting that occurred throughout the day.
