The study guide for the English I Honors semester exam is here. The exam will be Friday 9 January (the end of our first week back). Two additional things to keep in mind about the exam: Due to...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Cutting the Text and CM Practice
English I Honors began a three-day push through the final scenes of act three in Romeo and Juliet. Students are working in groups to cut the text by at least 30%, work that requires critical reading...
Commentary and Project Work
English 8 Strategies had a brief review on Schaffer commentary in anticipation of heading back to the lab next week to finish up our quarter project. English I Honors spent the day working on their...
Projects and Projects
English I Honors students began the major project for the Romeo and Juliet unit, a soundtrack with arguments for each song's inclusion that connects the song to the play. We began today by looking...
Tableaux and Typing
English I Honors students finished up 3.1 by doing tableaux vivants of various sections of the scene. It required critical reading and thinking, and it produced some unintentionally amusing results....
Mixed Work
Every class did something a little different today. English I Honors had two different classes: fourth period began act three scene one of Romeo and Juliet while sixth period finished up the test on...
Three Scenes and Planning
English 8 Strategies students spent the day planning their cause/effect essays, collating all their research and organizing it for a first draft on Tuesday. English I Honors students finished act...
Finishing Up Research and Close Reading
English I Honors students finished up the third scene of act two, examining much more closely the friar's opening words: English 8 Strategies students finished up their research for their group...
Friar’s Entrance and Research
English 8 Strategies basically finished up the research for the practice project we're working on. Some students will need to work on it in class tomorrow and will get time to do just that, but by...
Workshops and Research
English I Honors students began anonymously evaluating other students' work in the second half of their first Moodle workshop experience. Most students managed to finish all three required...
Finish the Balcony, Starting the Project
English 8 Strategies students began preparing for the quarter's major project, a cause/effect essay. We'll be doing a practice project with groups and as a class before we actually start the big...
Career Day
Today was career day -- classes who met (and not all of them did) worked on non-essential work.
