English I Honors continued with tone, examining Collins’s “The Lanyard.” To help students understand the poem, we looked at a public reading of the poem Collins gave. English 8 Strategies began working on their final quarter project, which will be an...
English 8 Strategies students worked today on sentence variety since it’s Wednesday (and we all know what Wednesday means: writer’s craft!), and both classes had an excellent session as we looked at complex sentences and how to form them. I’d like...
English 8 Strategies students went over last Friday’s test and had some long-overdue binder control, reorganizing binders and for some, creating new binders. Students need the following four tabs in their binders: Writing Focus My Writing Writing Craft Grammar...
English 8 Strategies completed a test on the Schaffer model and the argument today, and creative writing continued working on individual student projects, including material for the main Hughes web site. English I Honors students looked at connotation and the role it...
English I Honors students finished the first poetry lesson, a two-and-a-half-day lesson (though only planned as a two-day lesson) covering the EQ “How is poetry different from other forms of writing?” We returned to Collins’s poem “Introduction...
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