English I Honors students continued working on their very close reading and diagramming of the case against Tom Robinson. [gallery type="rectangular" size="medium"...
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The Case, Lit Circles, and a Old-Style Classroom
English I Honors students worked on their diagrams of the testimony within the case against Tom Robinson. The first day's work is available here at the Moodle site for students who were absent....
Pre-Trial and Lit Circles
English I Honors continued with the lit circles for To Kill a Mockingbird, looking at two issues (whether or not Atticus made a good decision in representing Robinson considering the potential risk...
Quarter 3 Stems Test
The third-quarter stems test will be on 21 March 2017. This is a list of the stems that we have covered thus far this year in the Article of the Week assignment.
Lit Circles All Around
All classes worked on lit circles today. English I students continued with the Mockingbird circles. We'll be moving on to the next section of readings shortly, but we'll be taking them one chapter...
Field Trip
We all had a field trip to Roper Mountain today, so most students didn't have class. That doesn't mean they don't have homework, though.
Back to Normal
English I Honors students returned to Mockingbird to look at some tough word choices that appear because of its nature as a Southern novel. English 8 students returned for the final text portion of...
MAP Spring 2017
Students took the spring MAP test today, which means almost everyone got a day off: it's one of the few days that I let kids have a break. What did most English I students do instead of relaxing?...
MAP 2017
Spring MAP test tomorrow. Homework for everyone: rest.
First Lit Circle and Main Idea Practice
English 8 students finished up their practice of determining the main idea of a text. English I Honors students worked on their first lit circle, debriefing in a forum afterward to make sure things...
MAP Prep and First Circles
English 8 students began a three-day whirlwind MAP preparation by filling in a topic we really hadn't worked on to this point this year, determining the main idea of a nonfiction text. English I...
Friday Work and Voice
English I Honors students began a short look at how to create voice in writing by examining the first few pages of To Kill a Mockingbird to look for various elements used to create voice. English 8...
