Category: English and Language Arts

  • English Blogs Update: Snow!

    Blogs for this week will be completed as homework. Please read the story “The Norwegian Rat” and answer the following question: Could the events depicted in the story happen in modern Egypt? Related articles The Revolution and History (jadaliyya.com) Was There A January 25 Revolution? (jadaliyya.com) English II Required Journals List (bfwclassroom.wordpress.com)

  • English Grammar: Verbs

    Here is the link to Grammar Revolution and the types of Verbs. http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/what-is-a-verb.html  

  • Nouns Day Three

    Copy the following sentences. Circle all of the Nouns and Pronouns. 1. Naomi traveled to Moab with her husband and two sons, before they died. 2. As a widow, Ruth chose to return with her mother-in-law to Judah. 3. She worked in the fields gleaning the barley and met her future husband, Boaz. Related articles…

  • Nouns: Day Two

    Copy each sentence and circle all of the Nouns and Pronouns. 1. Noah built an ark filled with pairs of every animal. 2. Many cultures have differing flood stories. Historians wonder why they are so similar..

  • Nouns: Day One

    Rewrite each sentence and circle all of the Nouns and Pronouns. 1. Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk and a great warrior. 2. He wondered through the desert, climbed the mountains, fought a pack of lions, spoke to the man-scorpions and walked the twelve leagues of darkness.

  • Herman Melville and Moby-dick

    Happy Anniversary to Moby-Dick Google Books Dedication page for Herman Melville Related articles Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”: 10 most memorable lines (csmonitor.com) Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick celebrated by Google doodle (guardian.co.uk)