After a few months, you might think that you want to drop out of this class but once you are finishing up the school year, you will realize how far you’ve come and you might even start to like English. At the end of this journey, you will even start to like Mr.Scott...
I first arrived in Warsaw eleven years after this photo was taken. The focus of the shot is the Palac Kultury i Nauki (“The Palace of Culture and Science”), a building that was a “gift” from Joseph Stalin in the 1950s when Poland was, for all...
13 school days left English 8 finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank today and examined how the story arcs back to the opening scene. While we have finished reading the actual text, we’ll be working on the play in various activities throughout most of the...
16 school days left English 8 continued on Anne Frank; English I continued on Lord of the Flies. Presentations are coming soon. The second session for ELA testing will be tomorrow. Homework is the same as yesterday and the day...
17 school days left Today, all students took the SC-Ready writing test. The kids on our team were focused and worked hard. They wrote about…the topic — whatever that was. Not testing violation here! We’ll return to our regularly scheduled...
18 school days left Tomorrow, we’ll be taking the SC Ready TDA writing test — one of the things we’ve been preparing for all year. To that end, we spent a little time talking about our game plan for tomorrow. Afterward, English I students had...
20 school days left The day started with the yearly visit from Mr. Jim Bannister, a local attorney who walks the students through the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird. He helps students discover new evidence and explains the significance of the evidence. Having...
During advisory, we had our first quidditch match. English 8 students presented some of the work they’ve been doing on The Diary of Anne Frank since not everyone is completing the same work for the same scene. We also went over the coming test on the Anne Frank...
English I Honors began the new unit on Lord of the Flies by reading Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” I threw them into the text with little to no background knowledge to let them make sense of the simple narrative of the text, which they did in...
English I students performed their skits about the three stories at the end of Mockingbird: what Atticus thinks happened; what Atticus and Heck Tate are eventually going to tell the town happened; what really happened. We’ll be finishing up the novel next week....
All classes are working on lit circles now: English 8 is working through the second act of Anne Frank while English I is finishing Mockingbird. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete 2.1 as needed; make sure you’re ready to do either the Somebody, the Journal, or the...
English I students continued with their literature circles for Mockingbird, going over the surprise at the end today. We’ll be finishing up the book tomorrow. English 8 students began the second act of The Diary of Anne Frank. They, too, will be doing literature...
English I students finished up the confusing chapter 24 from Mockingbird, seeing just how completely devastating Maudie’s “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?” comment actually is. English 8 students worked on a final writing assignment...
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