Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments

Socratic Seminars and Lyric Moments

by | Oct 6, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students had a discussion in the form of a Socratic seminar about topics related to our final project for the quarter, analytic paragraphs about the selections they are reading in literature class. For Flowers for Algernon, discussion questions...
Tone and Socratic Seminar

Tone and Socratic Seminar

by | Oct 3, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

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...
Sound Devices and Complex Sentences

Sound Devices and Complex Sentences

by | Oct 1, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

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...

Connotations and a Test

by | Sep 26, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

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...