by Mr. Scott | May 20, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
8 First, second, and sixth periods continued with Monster. We’re getting into the main testimony now, with students scouring the text for evidence of the protagonist’s guilt. Fourth period continued working on the research project. Most students have...
by Mr. Scott | May 19, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
9 First, second, and sixth began our final “unit” — we’re reading Monster to close out the year. Great literature it is not, but it’s a fun read and good for reviewing bias. Fourth period began making outlines from their research....
by Mr. Scott | May 28, 2009 | Update
5 Fourth and sixth periods worked on a cloze activity dealing with one of the attorney’s closing statements in Monster. It was a lot of fun, especially in sixth period: I assisted students by giving them riddles that contained the answers to the particular...
by Mr. Scott | May 26, 2009 | Update
7 All classes are now working on Monster, even English I. With only a few days remaining, I decided English I should get a break, so to speak. As such, there’s no homework, for anyone.
by Mr. Scott | May 21, 2009 | Update
10 Second period worked on transitions and powerful verbs. We used two famous short stories — “The Interlopers” and “The Most Dangerous Game” — to look at how an author’s use of powerful verbs can improve the writing by...
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