Advice and a Quiz

Advice and a Quiz

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...

Application

English 8 Strategies students (first and fifth periods) worked on a final Schaffer model paragraph. We will begin using them in our general writing next week. Fourth and sixth period students (English I Honors) reviewed the steps we had yesterday as well as the poem...
Argument and Poetry

Argument and Poetry

As it’s Monday, English 8 Strategies students returned to the argument. We looked at a new murder mystery for students to solve and had some pair work as students developed an argument about the murder of Amy LaTour. English I Honors students began the new unit...

Photograph from September 11

By Wislawa Szymborska They jumped from the burning floors— one, two, a few more, higher, lower. The photograph halted them in life, and now keeps them above the earth toward the earth. Each is still complete, with a particular face and blood well hidden. There’s...