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...
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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...
New Text and Romeo’s Final Soliloquy
English 8 students began the second of three parts of the Frederick Douglass text. We began with a quick overview of the new vocabulary for the text. English I Honors looked at Romeo's final...
Quizlet
All students: remember to go to Google Classroom to get the link to our quizlet.com classes. You'll be responsible for the vocabulary words that I've listed there.
Socratic Review
English I students worked on a revised Socratic Seminar, repeating Friday's discussion with some additional preparation completed over the weekend. [gallery columns="2"...
Socratic Quizlet
Third and fourth periods had Socratic Seminars to discuss the question of who is responsible for Juliet's "death" (i.e., her faked death). Fifth and sixth periods worked on Quizlet, getting accounts...
Figurative Language, Mood, and Subordinate Clauses
English I Honors students worked on the EQ "How does Shakespeare use figurative language to set the mood in a scene?" when examining Juliet's soliloquy in 4.3, just before she takes the potion:...
Antecedent Work and Subtext Completion
English I students finished up their work on 4.1 and 4.2 and subtext. We'll be tackling 4.3 tomorrow. English 8 students (almost)...
Pronoun Antecedent Application and Subtext
English 8 students began applying our pronoun-antecedent knowledge by looking at one of our anchor texts, "From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." We began with a bit...
