Prepositions and Friday Work

by | Feb 15, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students began the grammar portion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We’ll be focusing on phrases: prepositional, participial, gerund, infinitive, and appositive. Today’s focus was prepositional phrases, including an examination how they...

Test, Extra Credit, and More

by | May 23, 2017 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

7 school days left English I Honors students had the phrase test today and also learned a bit about the option for extra credit now available. English 8 students continued their final work on The Diary of Anne Frank and also learned a bit about the option for...
Sentence Types and Lit Circles

Sentence Types and Lit Circles

by | May 4, 2017 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

20 school days left After going over the extensive phrase homework, which has excited students so much that it is with the greatest regret that they realize we could have done sentence diagramming proper this year, English I Honors classes got to the summit of...
Final Lit Circles and Skimming

Final Lit Circles and Skimming

by | May 2, 2017 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students worked on The Diary of Anne Frank, evolving our reading into a lit circle format, which will take us through the end of the year. English I Honors students heard positively sacrilegious words from Mr. Scott today — sacrilegious for an English...