Starting Drama and Phrases

Starting Drama and Phrases

English I Honors students began working on phrases as part of the final push through Great Expectations. We’ll be using it our new knowledge to analyze sentences for meaning more effectively. English 8 students began working on the play The Diary of Anne Frank....

Concluding

English I Honors had their last reading day today as students waited for the majority of the class to come back from the field trip. We’ll pick up Monday with normal programming. English 8 students finished up the introductory work for the Anne Frank unit we...
New Unit and Reading

New Unit and Reading

English I Honors students had a reading day (and will have two more this week) as students’ absences for the Beta Club field trip to New York deplete the classes by at least 30% per class. English 8 students worked on the article of the week a bit, looking at...
Dickens Points and Project

Dickens Points and Project

I was a little disappointed with the lackluster showing of English 8 students’ projects, so we took today to give some students another chance to turn the project in for reduced credit. English I students had a quick look at Dickens’s use of dialect and...

Final Research and Narrative Creation

6 school days left First and fourth periods were finishing up their research projects, for which the annotated bibliography is due tomorrow. Students also watched a tutorial by Mr. Scott on how to use EasyBib to create the citations needed for their annotated...