Voice and Assessing

Voice and Assessing

English I Honors examined some sample paragraphs that I wrote about “The Cask of Amontillado” and evaluated them based on the project rubric. Once we debriefed as a class, students paired up again and worked to help their partner improve his/her paragraph...

Final Text and Analysis

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...

Voice and Friday Work

English I students worked on voice and tone in the opening pages of To Kill a Mockingbird. We began examing the first pages to determine the presence of certain stylistic characteristics: Long sentences Diversions Dated language Folksy-sounding language...