Socratic Seminar and Graphic Novels

by | Jan 13, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students practiced the Socratic Seminar engagement, something that I used to do a lot more often when I taught both writing and literature but that I now do rarely. Since we’ll be working again on argument, focusing first on a review of the...

Practice and Visions

by | Jan 12, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students looked at Juliet’s concerns as she contemplates quaffing the vial Friar Laurence gave her. We’re working on a graphic-novel-type illustration of the whole scene and will complete it tomorrow. English 8 Strategies students bit the...

Subtext Presentations and Mixed Work

by | Jan 7, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students acted their passages from 4.1 and 4.2, presenting afterward the passages with strong subtext and explaining what the subtext was. English 8 Strategies students spent half of the class working on participation self-evaluations for the quarter...

Revision and Subtext in 4.1 and 4.2

by | Jan 6, 2015 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students had another day of revising their cause/effect earthquake essays. Tomorrow we’ll spend a little time working on it, and Thursday we will spend most of the period working on it. After that, any additional work students wish to...
Enjoy the Break

Enjoy the Break

by | Dec 19, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

Here’s hoping everyone has a restful and joyful break. See you in 2015.   HomeworkEnglish I Honors:  complete the “Decoration Day” work and turn it in at the Moodle site by tonight at approximately midnight (you may also begin evaluating each...