It's Friday -- I've been working on the Hughes site for the last hour, so forgive me for the non-update. Homework only today!
Archive
What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
1.1 and Type 3 Sentences
English 8 Strategies students did work on writing craft today, returning to sentence variety and adding a new type of sentence to our repertoire. As we begin working toward our major second-quarter...
Prologue and Lab Work
English I Honors students began Romeo and Juliet proper, looking at the prologue, which to their surprise, turned out to be a sonnet. Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we...
Background and Analysis
English 8 Strategies students continued with the new writing focus, cause-and-effect writing. While I planned the lesson to last one day, it really needed two days to complete properly, so we'll...
Cause and Effect and Introducing Billy
English I Honors students began an extensive unit on Romeo and Juliet. We began by reviewing the basics of an argument and looking at a New York Times article about the impact Shakespeare has had...
Sonnets and Drafts
English 8 Strategies students continued working on their drafts from yesterday. We'll be coming back to them later this week. English I Honors students finished up reading sonnets and doing some...
First Topics and Sonnets
English I Honors classes are working towards the Shakespeare unit, which we will begin next week, and we are accomplishing this through Shakespeare's sonnets as a way to bring the poetry unit to the...
Sonnets and Exposition
English I Honors students worked on their first exposure to Shakespeare in class, reading "Sonnet 29" in preparation for our new unit on Romeo and Juliet. When in disgrace with fortune and men's...
Finishing Projects
As with yesterday, we worked on projects today, with all classes finishing up (or about to finish up) major end-of-quarter projects today. English I Honors students will need to turn in their poetry...
Algernon/Outsiders Essay Turn-in
Type your paragraph into Word. Document title: Save your document as "lastname_firstname." In other words "jones_sabrina" but not "sabrina_jones." Document location: Save your document into the...
Project Work
All classes worked on their projects in class. See previous posts below for more information.
Meter and Projects
English I Honors students finished up our whirlwind overview of meter in poetry before taking some time to work on their poetry projects. I've updated the rubric, specifically regarding the analysis...
