First period (English 8 Strategies) didn't have class due to the Donaldson Career Center visit, so during fifth period (also English 8 Strategies) we just did some review work. English I Honors...
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Villanelles and Linking Verbs
English I Honors students finished up working with villanelles in anticipation of writing a much more challenging poem, a sonnet, in a couple of weeks. Afterward, we returned to the question of...
Presentations and Quote Integration Continued
English 8 Strategies students continued with yesterday's work of quote integration. We came up with some good examples of effective quote integration when we did our individual practice today: For...
Integrating Quotes and Practicing Projects
English 8 Strategies began the sometimes-tricky art of integrating quotes from a document into one's own writing. We had an introduction and a bit of practice, but tomorrow, thought it's Wednesday...
Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments
English 8 Strategies students had a discussion in the form of a Socratic seminar about topics related to our final project for the quarter, analytic paragraphs about the selections they are reading...
Tone and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors continued with tone, examining Collins's "The Lanyard." To help students understand the poem, we looked at a public reading of the poem Collins gave. English 8 Strategies began...
Verb Phrases and Tone
English I Honors began a couple of days working with tone in writing, specifically in poetry. We began by saying the same sentence in various tones of voice in order to see what "tone" means in...
Sound Devices and Complex Sentences
English 8 Strategies students worked today on sentence variety since it's Wednesday (and we all know what Wednesday means: writer's craft!), and both classes had an excellent session as we looked at...
Test Overview, Binder Control, and Sound Devices
English 8 Strategies students went over last Friday's test and had some long-overdue binder control, reorganizing binders and for some, creating new binders. Students need the following four tabs in...
Connotation and Argument
English I Honors practiced the second type of Socratic seminar today in discussing "Those Winter Sundays" and the effect connotation has on it. English 8 Strategies finished up their first argument,...
Connotations and a Test
English 8 Strategies completed a test on the Schaffer model and the argument today, and creative writing continued working on individual student projects, including material for the main Hughes web...
Connotations and Verb Phrases
English 8 Strategies turned again to grammar -- after all, it is Thursday -- and we looked at verb phrases, looking to identify them in sentences as we work toward a fuller understanding of verbals....
