Blocking and Tone

by | Nov 7, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8 students worked on tone with “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Today we determined the tone; tomorrow, we’ll be looking at the story for textual evidence to back up our assertions about the tone. English I Honors students began looking at all the...
Tone and Inference

Tone and Inference

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

English 8 students worked on their Friday work: inference and IXL. English I Honors students worked on determining the tone of a poem — the first time they’ve worked to determine it alone! Exciting days. They then shared with students and compared answers,...

Somebody Wanted But So and Tone

by | Oct 3, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English 8, still learning how several in-class engagements work, did their first “Somebody Wanted But So” post-reading engagement today. They worked on chapter 5 from Nightjohn, using SWBS to summarizing their reading. English I Honors students began a...

Final Text and Analysis

by | Feb 12, 2018 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

English I Honors students continued working through the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, determining how Harper Lee creates such a convincing Southern voice. English 8 students worked on their final text segment from the Frederick Douglass text. HomeworkEnglish...