Oct 9

We're working on getting all the students posted to this blog. Our school system has not helped us out very much. Hopefully, by next week, we'll have everyone up and running. Thanks for your patience. We can't wait to read all the writing we'll have access to. :)

Oct 5

Senior IB - Finish Act I of King Lear. Trace (in writing) all the references to Nature...who speaks of it, what they say and how it creates tone in the play.

Junior IB - Read "A Modest Proposal" decipher and discuss how the English were treating the Irish to get such a reaction from Swift.

English IV - Read to The Battle with Grendel in Beowulf

Oct 1

Advocacy - another wasted effort...actually it was kind of nice to see grades and discuss them with their owners...kind of

Seniors - Still reading Beowulf. Haven't made too much headway but we will

Senior IB - King Lear. Translate into "modern" English page 7

Junior IB - Counting down to PSAT

Sept 29

Beowulf work with the Seniors, notes and all. Pgs 34 and 38 in the text.

Hamlet presentations in Senior IB. Also, comp book entry on the Hamlet passage.

Romeo and Juliet presentation for the rest of the day.

September 21

State testing today. Seniors seemed to be okay, some could work harder but I was pretty content with the majority of my class. Junior IB students took a BIG 1984 test and the Senior IB students discussed World Literature assignments.

More On-Demand tomorrow. Due dates are soon to be posted

News

Hopefully starting Tuesday, students will be able to access this at school and it'll be more used. Hopefully. Enjoy the three-day weekend.

Aug 24

Another long day for us. On-Demand writing tests begin in four weeks! Then on to portfolios lovelies.

English IV - Subject-Verb Agreement (seriously) and on-demand discussion...KNOW your formats!

IB Seniors - Book essay. AP style but with more time and more expected

IB Juniors - Book essay. To see what you know.