Prewriting, Revising, and Participles

First period worked on revising. The class is starting to fragment according to where they are in the creative process. By the end of the week, it will be entirely individual work: that’s the irony of a writing class, I suppose. Second and sixth periods worked...

Final Group Work

We completed the final day of group work for the memoir today. We’ll be spending two more days polishing it up, and then turn it in Monday. English I began verbs today. We’ll finish up tomorrow, testing willing. The testing in question is the Explore test....

Revision

First, second, and seventh periods began working on memoir revision. We used the memoir peer revision graphic organizer to begin working with a partner to improve our writing. Fourth period continued with Antigone. Homework First, second, and seventh periods: none....

Book Fair

All classes finished up working with Mrs. Weaver-James regarding the PASS writing test that is coming up 11 March and then we went to the book fair. Homework First period: make sure you’ve read through chapter 8 of The Giver. Second period: finish Lord of the...

PASS Overview

Mrs.Weaver-James, an instructional coach at Hughes, was a guest teacher in all classes today, giving students some important information about the upcoming PASS test. Tomorrow, we’ll be going to the book fair, with Mrs. Weaver-James taking the few minutes of...