English 8 students went over the test we had a few days ago. We were able to review the items missed and prepare for the next assessment, which will be a vocab quiz tomorrow. English I Honors...
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Prepositions and Friday Work
English I Honors students began the grammar portion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We'll be focusing on phrases: prepositional, participial, gerund, infinitive, and appositive. Today's focus was...
Wrapping Up Douglass and the First Discussion
English 8 students finished up the Frederick Douglass text, going over the work from yesterday before having one last session with the text: a series of questions that, had they not done the amazing...
Transitions, Voice, and Close Reading
English I Honors finished up -- more or less -- the work with voice in the opening pages of Mockingbird. We'll conclude it on Thursday. English 8 students finished the third and final excerpt from...
Final Text and Analysis
English I Honors students continued working through the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, determining how Harper Lee creates such a convincing Southern voice. English 8 students worked on...
Voice and Friday Work
English I students worked on voice and tone in the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird. We began examing the first pages to determine the presence of certain stylistic characteristics: Long...
Tests
Almost everyone was taking or finishing a test today. English I Honors students finished up the Romeo and Juliet test -- the final one of the unit. We also began working on the next unit by reading...
Debrief, Test Prep, and Writing
English I Honors students worked again on their Romeo and Juliet projects. We'll be having our act four/five test tomorrow, and then we're starting a new unit Thursday. English 8 students finished...
Projects and Close Reading
English 8 students finished up their second close reading portion of Frederick Douglass's autobiography. We worked in groups and will be debriefing/correcting tomorrow. We'll have a small test on...
Transitions and Chess
Today was reward day, so all classes were shorter. English I Honors finished up the work on transitioning in writing. English 8 students, since it was reward day, had their third chess day of the...
Vocab and Transitions
English 8 took the day to work with vocabulary. They did this because of the shortened sixth period, which lost twenty minutes of class time for the student-faculty basketball game. English I Honors...
Annotation and Extra Credit
English I students finished up yesterday's work by looking at how to interpret and answer extended essay prompts. Actually writing this composition will be the extra credit assignment for the third...
