English I Honors students had the first part of a four-part test on Romeo and Juliet. English 8 Strategies students did some thinking-out-of-the-box work on cause and effect.
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Finishing, Squared
English 8 Strategies students finished yesterday's test and took a bit of time to see where we're going in the next few weeks. English I Honors students finished up the first act of Romeo and...
Test and Hidden Stage Instructions
English 8 Strategies students had a test on combined sentences while English I Honors finished up act one.
Completed Project and Quiz Preparation
English I Honors students did a bit of prep work for the coming quiz on act one of Romeo and Juliet. English 8 Strategies finished up the cause-effect writing mini-project that was preparation for...
Argument and Test Prep
English 8 Honors completed a couple of days of test prep for Wednesday's test on sentence combining. English I Honors students looked at Romeo's and Juliet's meeting to determine how Romeo was using...
Practice and Close Reading
English 8 Strategies began preparation for a test next week on the three sentence-combining strategies we've been working on for the past several weeks. We'll be doing more practice tomorrow and...
Queen Mab and Revising
English 8 Strategies students worked in the computer lab today, editing each others' work before using their suggestions to revise their own work. English I Honors began a close reading of the Queen...
Love, Marriage, and Details
English 8 Strategies students looked at how to add details to their writing. We began with a bit of modeling before moving on to some pair practice. English I Honors worked with Romeo and Juliet...
Catch-up
Today turned out to be a bit of a catch-up day for most classes, though it wasn't initially planned to be such. English 8 Strategies went over some homework we were supposed to cover Wednesday but...
Finalizing First Drafts and Comparing
RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts”...
1.1 Complete and Comp Lab Writing
English I Honors students completed act one scene one of Romeo and Juliet, acting and analyzing the passage for characters' emotions (for tone of voice in reading/acting) and hidden stage...
Text Elements and First Acting
English 8 Strategies students looked at last week's readings examining them for text elements and specific text structures. We re-marked the text and analyzed it. English I Honors students looked at...
