First Analysis and First Skills

First Analysis and First Skills

by | Aug 26, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students began looking at the specific reading strategies we’ll be working to master and deepen throughout the year. Afterward, we read a couple of texts to begin applying the skills. English I Honors students began their first short story analysis,...

New Units for All

by | Aug 24, 2015 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

Except for journalism, all classes started a new unit. English 8 students began their second STEAM unit. We’re keeping some of the details under wraps for the next few days, but it involves bullying, numbers, and literacy. We read Thank You, Mr. Faulker as an...
Back to Normal

Back to Normal

by | May 1, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

First and fifth periods (English 8 Strategies) began looking at “Tears of Autumn” as part of a slow move into the STEAM unit we’ll be concluding the year with on the eighth-grade hall. Fourth period English I Honors students had a final bit of...
Winter Sundays and Diaries

Winter Sundays and Diaries

by | Oct 24, 2013 | English I Honors, Update

First and fourth Periods finished looking at the poem by Denise Levertov, and looked at it’s meaning. Intrusion After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones something my former hands had longed for came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes had...