by Mr. Scott | Oct 3, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
First and sixth periods turned in their memoirs and began a new unit today. We’re working on persuasion, and we’ll be creating a persuasive piece of writing after learning about persuasive techniques. Second and sixth periods reviewed the weekend’s...
by Mr. Scott | Dec 3, 2010 | English 8, Update
Today in first period class we read a poem by Nikki Giovanni called “The Drum,” on page 610. After we read the poem we went through the steps of understanding the poem. Then, when we got done with that we received a vocabulary chart of words and some were...
by Mr. Scott | Dec 3, 2010 | English I Honors, Update
Second and sixth periods, we worked on context clues. We went over four ways we can determine a word’s meaning through the context clues. We began using a vocabulary chart to track unknown words in poems and how we’re using context clues to figure out the...
by Mr. Scott | Dec 2, 2010 | English I Honors, Update
Second and sixth periods worked on sound devices (onomatopoeia and rhythm) and context clues, reading the poem “Cat!” by Eleanor Farjeon. Cat! Atter her, atter her, Sleeky flatterer, Spitfire chatterer, Scatter her, scatter her Wuff! Wuff! Treat her rough!...
by Mr. Scott | Nov 17, 2009 | Update
First, second, and seventh periods looked at Georgia Douglas Johnson’s poem “Your World” as a model for the second poem in our poetry portfolio project. Your world is as big as you make it. I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a...
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