English 8 students began reading and examining in earnest The Diary of Anne Frank. We'll be reading it in class for the first act, changing to literature circles and presentations for the second...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Visitor
Mr. Jim Bannister, a local attorney who has much experience in criminal law, visited our class today to help students evaluate the job that Atticus Finch did in representing Tom Robinson. [gallery...
Anne Frank and TDA
English 8 students continued getting background information necessary for understanding Anne Frank. We'll be starting the play shortly. English I Honors students worked on TDA strategies before our...
Works Cited and Poetry Work
English I Honors students worked on research just a little more, reviewing the sweet intricacies of MLA citations. Students were rapt in fascination about the near perfect beauty of the MLA (8th...
Research and Ballads
English I students built the foundation for a quick one-week unit on research and inquiry skills/standards. We'll be using the tragedy of Emmett Till and its effect on the Civil Rights movement as...
Individual Practice and Differentiation
English I Honors worked on a couple of things: students who weren't happy with their understanding of independent/subordinate clauses worked with me in a small group; students who felt fairly...
Chapter 24 and Poetry
English I Honors students began tackling the tricky 24th chapter in TKMB today. They solved a few problems and saw just how challenging the text can be. [gallery columns="2"...
Testing, Chapter 24, and Figurative Language
English I Honors students went through chapter 24 of TKMB. It's a confusing chapter that seems to be, as one student expressed it, the ultimate non-sequitur. We'll be spending a couple of days...
Applying and Analyzing
English I students completed the trial. English 8 students started the second and final week of figurative language/poetry. We put together all the steps to be able to answer a simple question: what...
Figurative Language and Tom Robinson
English I students worked on Tom Robinson's testimony in To Kill a Mockingbird. We've finished our close analysis of the trial and will return to it in a few weeks when a trial lawyer comes for a...
Interpreting Figurative Language and Mayella’s Testimony
English 8 students continued with the short unit on figurative language, reviewing today how to interpret figurative language. They picked up a few new terms: tenor and vehicle. English I Honors...
Sentence Types and Figurative Language
English I Honors students worked complex and compound-complex sentences. Complex Sentences We determined a few things: compound sentence = simple sentence + simple sentencecomplex sentence = simple...
