by Mr. Scott | Oct 22, 2014 | English I Honors, Update
English 8 Strategies students continued working on their drafts from yesterday. We’ll be coming back to them later this week. English I Honors students finished up reading sonnets and doing some inductive reasoning, determining general characteristics of sonnets...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 13, 2014 | English I Honors, Update
English I Honors students finished up our whirlwind overview of meter in poetry before taking some time to work on their poetry projects. I’ve updated the rubric, specifically regarding the analysis of figurative language or sound devices. The new rubric is...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 10, 2014 | English I Honors, Update
First period (English 8 Strategies) didn’t have class due to the Donaldson Career Center visit, so during fifth period (also English 8 Strategies) we just did some review work. English I Honors students had a vocabulary quiz and then went over the various types...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 8, 2014 | English I Honors, Update
English 8 Strategies students continued with yesterday’s work of quote integration. We came up with some good examples of effective quote integration when we did our individual practice today: For example, there are “people who just stop and talk” because they...
by Mr. Scott | Oct 7, 2014 | English I Honors, Update
English 8 Strategies began the sometimes-tricky art of integrating quotes from a document into one’s own writing. We had an introduction and a bit of practice, but tomorrow, thought it’s Wednesday and we should be working on sentences, we’ll continue...
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