English 8 students worked on their lit group readings of chapter four of Nightjohn. We'll be finishing up the chapter tomorrow. English I Honors students worked on their final paragraph for their...
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Topic Sentence and New Chapter
English I Honors students worked on the topic sentence for their most challenging assignment so far: the paragraph on symbolism. Students worked in pairs to flesh out and improve their topic...
Motifs and Symbols
English I Honors debriefed the latest writing assignment and began thinking about the final one before the big project -- three paragraphs, completely on their own. It's a daunting challenge but...
Parts of Speech and Inference Work
English 8 students worked on their Friday inference work and English I Honors students worked on their parts of speech review. It was a short day due to the reward day, so that was about all we had...
Symbolism, Group Work Practice, and a Benchmark
English I Honors students worked on symbolism in "The Necklace" and "Gift of the Magi" as well as a bit of work with parts of speech identification. English 8 students practiced effective group work...
Irony, Parts of Speech, and a Benchmark
English 8 students took a benchmark for the year, and we will be finishing it up tomorrow. English I Honors students worked on making a good topic sentence for the story we read yesterday, then had...
Irony and “Somebody Wanted But So”
English I Honors students finished up their third paragraph in the Schaffer analytic/short story unit. We began working on the fourth and final single paragraph, which is on irony and symbolism....
Work Day
English I Honors had a work day today, spending most of the class period working with a partner on their latest Schaffer analytic paragraphs. We'll be turning them in tomorrow during class. English...
Planning, Inferences, Book Fair, and Chess
English I Honors students worked on their planning for their third Schaffer paragraph. We'll be finishing up in class Monday, so make sure you are done with your regular planning and writing and...
Finishing and Chapter Three
English I Honors students completed the parts of speech presentations. They've now covered all eight parts of speech: nouns pronouns adjectives verbs adverbs prepositions conjunctions interjections...
Motifs, Verbs, and More
English 8 students began looking at what a motif is (a repeating image or idea that appears throughout a literary work) as we began moving toward the question of what a theme is and how to determine...
Comprehension and Characterization
English I students began working on their third topic in the short stories unit, this time on characterization. English 8 students, after some technical difficulties that I think I've finally...
