by Mr. Scott | Nov 1, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
First and sixth periods looked at commentary sentences in the Schaffer model. We worked on creating our own once we got a handle on what commentary is. Second and fourth periods examined the question of narrator reliability in To Kill a Mockingbird. Seventh period...
by Mr. Scott | Apr 5, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
All classes had some form of group work or group discussions today. First period looked at various aspects of The Giver from both students’ perspective and Jonas’ perspective. Second and sixth periods used Shirley Jackson’s “Charles” to...
by Mr. Scott | Feb 15, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
First period looked at inferring and its relationship to implying: Writers imply with the expectation that Readers infer. After reading the story “Conversation Piece” (a story that relies heavily on readers’ inferences), we turned back to The Diary...
by Mr. Scott | Feb 9, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
First period spent their first of two planning days for the project. Second and sixth periods worked on inferences and implications, as well as the relationship between the two. We looked at a story the relies solely on inference, then turned our newly-retrained,...
by Mr. Scott | May 3, 2010 | Update
First and seventh periods continued with The Glory Field. We’ve begun the final section, set in 1994, and we will be using comparison/contrast as our method of analysis for this section. Second period continued with Flowers for Algernon. Fourth period began...
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