Project Example

by | Sep 8, 2009 | Update

This is an example of the Lord of the Flies project that English I Honors students are working on. It has an example of both what to do and what not to do.

Sensory Language and a Rubric

by | Sep 4, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods worked on sensory language in the excerpt from Maya Angelou’s  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. We paid special attention to the following passage: “It was the best of times and the worst of times . . .” Her voice slid in and...
Vocabulary and a Rubric

Vocabulary and a Rubric

by | Sep 2, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods worked on vocabulary for the reading we’ll be doing tomorrow. Fourth period had a quiz and Q&A session on the latest chapters of the novel. We ended doing work with pronouns as part of our parts of speech review....

Annabelle

by | Sep 1, 2009 | Update

We will be reading a selection from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings tomorrow as part of our memoir unit. As the selection is set in the Depression, we looked at the Depression a bit today and began thinking about what to expect from the piece....