Fourth period English I Honors students continued looking at how Harper Lee achieves the voice of a southern genteel lady while still remaining childlike in To Kill a Mockingbird. We looked at the...
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Allegory, Racism, and Writing
English 8 Strategies students re-started the bi-weekly writing session that defined much of the first semester. Tuesdays and Fridays will be writing and consultation days, and we began today with a...
New Beginnings and New Argument
English I Honors students split in two today, with fourth period beginning To Kill a Mockingbird and sixth period beginning Lord of the Flies. We'll be switching selections in a few weeks when both...
Rubric and Quiz
English I Honors students had a quiz on Romeo and Juliet -- the final quiz. We're done with R&J! English 8 Strategies students began looking at the rubric the state will use to evaluate their...
One and Only Planning and More Planning
English 8 Strategies returned to some preparatory work for the ACT-Aspire test in April. We're working to get some procedures for the test in place and in mind so that we can simply practice them --...
Practice Planning and Sentence Fragments Redux
English 8 Strategies students worked on identifying and correcting sentence fragments. We'll have one more day of practice next week with first period and probably two more days with fifth period....
Searching for Evidence and a Tough Prompt
English I Honors finished up (almost) all our work on fate and Romeo and Juliet in general with a short look at how to deal with some of the insane prompts they'll encounter in high school. We went...
Argument 2 and Final Fate
English I Honors students turned the final moments of Romeo and Juliet to finish the examination of the play for references in any way to fate. We'll be using these copious notes from Friday and...
Fate Treasure Hunt and Reading the Prompt
English 8 Strategies returned to the ACT-Aspire test today, looking at how to make sure we understand perfectly the prompt for the test. We went over the practice prompt from the last session and...
Fishbowl Fate and Fragments
English I Honors students began the final push toward the end of Romeo and Juliet. We'll be looking at the concept of fate as it develops throughout the play, so today we defined fate using a...
Argument Analysis and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors students completed their Socratic Seminars for the question of who was responsible for Juliet's faked death. Students also turned in their planning sheets for this discussion....
Responsibility and Arugument
Students in English I Honors began a two-day look at who was responsible for Juliet's "death" (i.e., her fake death at the end of act four). We'll be conducting a Socratic Seminar tomorrow to try to...
