English I Honors finished up -- more or less -- the work with voice in the opening pages of Mockingbird. We'll conclude it on Thursday. English 8 students finished the third and final excerpt from...
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Final Text and Analysis
English I Honors students continued working through the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, determining how Harper Lee creates such a convincing Southern voice. English 8 students worked on...
Voice and Friday Work
English I students worked on voice and tone in the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird. We began examing the first pages to determine the presence of certain stylistic characteristics: Long...
Tests
Almost everyone was taking or finishing a test today. English I Honors students finished up the Romeo and Juliet test -- the final one of the unit. We also began working on the next unit by reading...
Debrief, Test Prep, and Writing
English I Honors students worked again on their Romeo and Juliet projects. We'll be having our act four/five test tomorrow, and then we're starting a new unit Thursday. English 8 students finished...
Projects and Close Reading
English 8 students finished up their second close reading portion of Frederick Douglass's autobiography. We worked in groups and will be debriefing/correcting tomorrow. We'll have a small test on...
Transitions and Chess
Today was reward day, so all classes were shorter. English I Honors finished up the work on transitioning in writing. English 8 students, since it was reward day, had their third chess day of the...
Vocab and Transitions
English 8 took the day to work with vocabulary. They did this because of the shortened sixth period, which lost twenty minutes of class time for the student-faculty basketball game. English I Honors...
Annotation and Extra Credit
English I students finished up yesterday's work by looking at how to interpret and answer extended essay prompts. Actually writing this composition will be the extra credit assignment for the third...
New Text and Romeo’s Final Soliloquy
English 8 students began the second of three parts of the Frederick Douglass text. We began with a quick overview of the new vocabulary for the text. English I Honors looked at Romeo's final...
Quizlet
All students: remember to go to Google Classroom to get the link to our quizlet.com classes. You'll be responsible for the vocabulary words that I've listed there.
Socratic Review
English I students worked on a revised Socratic Seminar, repeating Friday's discussion with some additional preparation completed over the weekend. [gallery columns="2"...
