Ms. Hrabosky’s English students started the school year by practicing their handwriting, manuscript and cursive, and learning why it is important to learn cursive even in our technology savvy world. Writing in shaving cream is a great way for students to feel the letters being formed and is always a big hit. Surprisingly, the students […]
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Ms. Ammendola’s language arts classes are learning both the spelling of words and the meanings. They created a vocabulary set for their words in Quizlet to help them practice by playing games and taking tests. In addition, the students illustrated the words in order to maintain a mental image in their minds. For each vocabulary […]
Continue ReadingA Midsummer Night’s Dream
Seniors in Ms. Hrabosky’s British literature classes read A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare in class over several weeks. Students enjoyed reading the play in Shakespearean as well as presenting their character lines in different voices, tones, and dialects which gave them a change of pace from our everyday vernacular English. Once the unit was […]
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It is officially spring! Ms. Hrabosky helped her English students hop into spring by learning about the vernal equinox which happened last Friday. During the vernal equinox, day and night have equal length. The position of the sun causes this to happen. During an equinox, the sun’s rays shine perpendicular to Earth. There are only […]
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In literature class, the seventh graders are reading The War of the Wall by Toni Cade Bambara. When an artist from New York begins painting on a wall in their small Southern town, the narrator and his cousin are outraged. After reading the story, the students wrote a paragraph to describe what picture they would […]
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Ms. Hrabosky’s English students read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s speech and discussed dreams; as well as, the importance to dreams in life. Students created a dream cloud that explained a personal or country dream in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Once all the dream clouds were composed, they put them together and […]
Continue ReadingExpository Problem-and-Solution Essay
Ms. Hrabosky’s tenth grade English class composed an expository problem-and-solution essay to work on the skill of identifying a problem and offering a reasonable solution. The students’ essay topic was of their choice as long as they provided a clear description of a specific real-life problem, an analysis of the most important parts of the […]
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The seniors in Ms. Hrabosky’s English class constructed a variety of projects to wrap up our Animal Farm unit. Students were required to pick from a variety of projects and show their creativity and comprehension of the novel throughout the assignment. Most students created a map of a country and labeled the land with all […]
Continue ReadingWilliam Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Ms. Hrabosky’s eleventh grade students finished reading William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and wrapped up the unit by completing a project of their choosing to show their creativity and to demonstrate understanding of the play. One student created a sound track for Hamlet and explained the connection to the play, using songs to show literary evidence such […]
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Ms. Hrabosky’s English students spent time studying homophones, words that are pronounced the same as another word but differ in meaning and in spelling. Students rewrote a letter by correcting all the homophone errors. This daily starter exercise showed students the importance of checking for spelling errors as well as using the correct words that […]
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