Cause/Effect and 1/4 of a Test

by | Nov 21, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students had the first part of a four-part test on Romeo and Juliet. English 8 Strategies students did some thinking-out-of-the-box work on cause and effect. HomeworkEnglish I Honors: read the prologue and the first two scenes of act...

Completed Project and Quiz Preparation

by | Nov 18, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students did a bit of prep work for the coming quiz on act one of Romeo and Juliet. English 8 Strategies finished up the cause-effect writing mini-project that was preparation for the larger, more challenging work we’ll be doing in the second...

Finalizing First Drafts and Comparing

by | Nov 6, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). English I Honors...
Background and Analysis

Background and Analysis

by | Oct 28, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students continued with the new writing focus, cause-and-effect writing. While I planned the lesson to last one day, it really needed two days to complete properly, so we’ll drop Tuesday’s planned lesson and move it to a later date....