Socratic Discussion and Motifs

English 8 students bean working on motifs, looking for three motifs in Nightjohn: power money freedom Motifs will be useful later when we start trying to determine a theme of the novel. English I Honors students worked on “The Necklace” in our first, full...

Chapter 3 and the Final Analysis

English 8 students went through chapter 3 from Nightjohn after their article of the week work. We practiced retelling, doing individual retellings and a group retelling before we had our daily individual selection reading time. English I Honors began the final writing...
Socratic Seminars

Socratic Seminars

Both English I students and English 8  students conducted Socratic Seminars today. English I students discussed the short story “In the Family,” which is the next story in our short story/writing about literature intro unit. English 8 students discussed...
Lottery and a Brawl

Lottery and a Brawl

English I Honors students,  after going over the end of yesterday’s lesson and why it was so vulgar compared to what they were expecting (it has something to do with the audience gathering in the Globe Theater), went over the next portion of 1.1, with the brawl...