by Mr. Scott | Mar 29, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update
Second and sixth periods finished “Raymond’s Run,” a story students generally enjoy. First period continued with The Giver. We’ll begin working on symbolism tomorrow. Fourth period complete clauses and had an introduction to sentence type....
by Mr. Scott | Apr 20, 2010 | Update
First and seventh periods worked on The Glory Field’s fourth part, “April 1964.” The main character has just been offered an opportunity to be the first African American student at a local college. Myers makes reference to Marian Anderson, so we...
by Mr. Scott | Apr 15, 2010 | Update
First period completed the 1930 section of The Glory Field. We completed the plot chart and discussed the upward motion of the plot (how, even though Luvenia doesn’t get what she wants, she still gains something). Second period went over the escape in The Giver....
by Mr. Scott | Apr 12, 2010 | Update
First and seventh periods reviewed some vocabulary words, and we began looking at how we’ve used our reader’s journals over the weekend to summarize our reading. First period also began working on a review of the structure of a plot. Fourth period worked...
by Mr. Scott | Apr 9, 2010 | Update
First and seventh period used their reading journals as a method of keeping track of what they’ve read. Students have complained about not remembering what they read, so I decided to practice summarizing and make it a required element of the novel we’re...
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