English I students did a little more work on the Odyssey. We looked at how Homer’s non-linear storyline comes about (hint: it involves punctuation) to provide a model for one of the project requirements (that the game must in some way reflect the non-linear...
English 8 read the second selection from The Circuit. It’s called “Inside Out” and deals with the author’s first days in school and the challenges he face not being fluent in English. We used a Somebody Wanted But So chart to help us with our...
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...
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