Ballads and Cover-Ups

English I students went over the great cover-up in Mockingbird, teasing out the actual story, what Atticus thinks happened, and what Heck Tate is going to say happened. English 8 students went over the ballad from yesterday in order to get ready for the ballad we will...

Comparison and Ballads

English Strategies students began working on the heavy-lifting portion of the STEAM unit we’re currently working on, comparing a poem and a portion of a novel. English Studies students took the comparison a bit further. English I Honors students looked at a...

Lit Circles All Around

All classes were engaged today in lit circles in one form or another. The only exception was English Studies, which went over briefly how to determine tone in a poem: Look for repetitions. Determine the positive or negative nature of the repetitions. Look for more...