English 8 students had a Socratic Seminar about whether or not it's a good idea for people like Harriet Tubman, who had escaped slavery, to risk it all to go back to help others. We had a variety of...
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Catch Up and Testimony
English 8 students had some time today to catch up. We didn't finish our discussion prep on Thursday, so we finished that up, and we had a chance to make up some other missing work and prepare for...
Friday Work and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors students had a Socratic Seminar about the minor characters we have encountered so far. Students arranged the characters in a moral hierarchy, then worked to argue their cause in a...
Reading Day and Discussion Prep
English I had a bit of a reading day and "here's where you stand for the year" grade check. English 8 students finished going over their Harriet Tubman annotation/lit circle projects. We'll be...
Project Work and Gerunds
English I students went over part three of our phrase-blitz, going through gerunds in less than a period. Easy-peasy, right? English 8 students continued with their Harriet Tubman...
Turn In, Participles, Test Review, and More
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...
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...
