English I students continued working with sentence analysis in Great Expectations. English 8 students continued with the lit circles for The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Final Lit Circles and Skimming
English 8 students worked on The Diary of Anne Frank, evolving our reading into a lit circle format, which will take us through the end of the year. English I Honors students heard positively...
Sentence Analysis and Summarizing
English 8 students began a cross-curricular bit of work (working with Ms. George, the writing teacher) on creating objective summaries. English I students continued with the phrase work we've been...
ELA Testing Done for 2017
We're done with all ELA testing -- except for the EOC for E1 students. But that's a few weeks off...
First Step Done and Motifs
English I Honors students learned what a motif is and used a simple graphic organizer to begin tracking nine motifs in Great Expectations. English 8 students finished up act one, scene one of The...
Phrases and a Play
English I finished up the overview of the five major types of phrases. We'll be using these to analyze sentences from Great Expectations. English 8 students continued with the first scene of The...
Starting Drama and Phrases
English I Honors students began working on phrases as part of the final push through Great Expectations. We'll be using it our new knowledge to analyze sentences for meaning more effectively....
Concluding
English I Honors had their last reading day today as students waited for the majority of the class to come back from the field trip. We'll pick up Monday with normal programming. English 8 students...
New Unit and Reading
English I Honors students had a reading day (and will have two more this week) as students' absences for the Beta Club field trip to New York deplete the classes by at least 30% per class. English 8...
Dickens Points and Project
I was a little disappointed with the lackluster showing of English 8 students' projects, so we took today to give some students another chance to turn the project in for reduced credit. English I...
Project Completion All Around
English I Honors students began Great Expectations by taking a look at how Dickens tends to construct his sentences. English 8 students completed the project for "The Move to Freedom"...
Finishing Up Mockingbird and a Project
English I Honors students are so close to finishing Mockingbird that they can see the light at the end of the cliche. English 8 students are so close to finishing their project that they, too, can...
