English 8 students began working on the first of three selections from The Circuit, Francisco Jiménez’s memoir of life as a migrant child. We read “Under the Wire,” the first chapter of the book, and worked on comprehension and discussion questions...
English 8 students went off-script a little today: we were supposed to start our next reading, “Under the Wire,” but as I read through students’ responses to the video we watched yesterday (“Harvest of Shame”), I realized we had an...
English 8 students began our new unit, which is about the search for home. We’ll be starting with some selections about immigration, so we prepared for those selections by watching 10 minutes from the legendary 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame. We also watched...
English 8 students continued with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” shifting to some character analysis. We looked at psychological factors behind the story. We looked at questions like: What motivates the narrator’s actions? How does the narrator describe...
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