Presentations and Prep

by | Dec 14, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students continued working on their Seven Habits of Effective Teens as part of their quarterly STEAM project. Students are working on outlining as a means to create objective summaries. We will use these as the basis of a larger jigsaw reading  of the whole...

Balcony and Applied Outlines

by | Dec 5, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students began applying their summarizing and outlining skills to a short chapter in The Seven Habits of Effective Teens. We’ll be working on this through winter break. English I Honors students began the balcony scene, making it through the first few...

Outlining The Nurse and Juliet

by | Nov 28, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

All classes spent a little time on the article of the week. I provided students with some additional help in the form of a stems list to help students determine words from context. English I students finished up work on implied blocking in  Shakespeare by looking at a...
Outlining and Inferred Blocking

Outlining and Inferred Blocking

by | Nov 27, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

All classes began with more in-depth practice with the Article of the Week assignment. English I Honors students began applying what we learned yesterday about implied blocking included in Romeo and Juliet. Specifically, we looked at this small passage from Capulet:...