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...
Homeric Similes and Jigsaw Reading

Homeric Similes and Jigsaw Reading

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

First and Fourth Periods had a short quiz on Odysseus’s encounter with the Lotus Eaters and Polyphemus. They also worked on locating Homeric Similes. Second and seventh periods worked on jigsaw reading for Flowers for Algernon after going over the text structure...
Odyssey and Text Structures

Odyssey and Text Structures

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

Today in first and fourth periods we started looking at the first part of Homer’s Odyssey. We marked the text and looked at it bit by bit on our own and with partners before going over it as a class. Second and seventh periods continued working with text...
Epic Text Structures and Cornell Notes

Epic Text Structures and Cornell Notes

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

First and fourth periods looked at what epics, and a new method of note taking, the Cornell Method. We’ll be returning to text structure and the Odyssey next week. Second and seventh periods had a modified lesson in which all mini-lessons for text structure were...