Finalizing First Drafts and Comparing

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

RL.9-10.7. Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus). English I Honors...

1.1 Complete and Comp Lab Writing

by | Nov 5, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students completed act one scene one of Romeo and Juliet, acting and analyzing the passage for characters’ emotions (for tone of voice in reading/acting) and hidden stage instructions like in Romeo’s  words to Benvolio (key passage...

Text Elements and First Acting

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

English 8 Strategies students looked at last week’s readings examining them for text elements and specific text structures. We re-marked the text and analyzed it. English I Honors students looked at a long exchange between Benvolio and Montague as an initial...

Quick Recap

by | Oct 31, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

It’s Friday — I’ve been working on the Hughes site for the last hour, so forgive me for the non-update. Homework only today! HomeworkEnglish I Honors: read pages 812 and 813. Be prepared to read these as we read in class, with full emotion...
1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

1.1 and Type 3 Sentences

by | Oct 30, 2014 | English I Honors, Update

English 8 Strategies students did work on writing craft today, returning to sentence variety and adding a new type of sentence to our repertoire. As we begin working toward our major second-quarter project, we’ll be including these new sentences in our work....