English I Honors students worked on a practice test before the first Romeo and Juliet test Monday. A quick way to study: Re-read the whole act. You should be able to do this in half an hour. Review...
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Outlining The Nurse and Juliet
All classes spent a little time on the article of the week. I provided students with some additional help in the form of a stems list to help students determine words from context. English I...
Outlining and Inferred Blocking
All classes began with more in-depth practice with the Article of the Week assignment. English I Honors students began applying what we learned yesterday about implied blocking included in Romeo and...
Scene 5 and Summarizing
English 8 students began working on an extended exercise with standard RI-6.1: "Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their...
Habits and Mab Close Read
English 8 students continued an anticipation activity designed to prepare students for our new unit, which will focus on Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. We used a graphic...
Bad Habits and Queen Mab
English 8 students began their new unit, which will be a non-fiction unit on The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective Teens. We began today with a Pear Deck session on bad habits some teens might have:...
Blocking and Tone
English 8 students almost finished up tone with "The Tell-Tale Heart," identifying passages that serve as evidence for our established tone of frantic paranoia. We'll finish up tomorrow. English I...
Blocking and Tone
English 8 students worked on tone with "The Tell-Tale Heart." Today we determined the tone; tomorrow, we'll be looking at the story for textual evidence to back up our assertions about the tone....
Shaky Start and Friday Work
In English I, we began Shakespeare proper (1.1.1-30) and discovered that it begins with a little surprise, not entirely pleasant -- a good lesson in the unpredictability of Shakespeare. English 8...
Overview and Poe
English 8 students continued with a short unit on irony and "The Tell-Tale Heart" for Halloween. We'll be finishing it up early next week. English I Honors students went over the poetry test...
Benchmarking and Irony
English I students had the quarter 1 benchmark test. It took the whole period, and it will require some more time tomorrow as well. We'll be taking another benchmark at the end of the first...
Test Prep and Project Work
English I Honors students worked on their test prep for tomorrow. English 8 students worked on their Nightjohn projects.
