Harwood English Review Online

Escape From Hindmirror Village, a collaborative novel

XIII. Sally, giggling as if it were a game, wasn’t paying attention to what was ahead of her. She tripped and fell in to a small den at the base of a tree. A scream of terror burst through the air. Sally exploded out of the den as a huge bear came roaring after her. “SAAALLLYYYY!!!!” [...]

We're having the first rounds of the Spelling Bee in English class this week! Next Thursday we will have the final event for the school. The top fifteen or sixteen middle schoolers will compete in the auditorium with the remaining students in the audience. So far everyone is having a blast!

Look for links to student work coming soon! Origins of English links to handouts: origins-english-grasp origins-of-english-presentation-rubric

Lesson One: We are revisiting the Word Histories students investigated last week, the etymologies of words like book, mathematical, poet, and money. We see that English words used earlier than 1066 are often Anglo-Saxon in origin and usually have few syllables. Words that enter the English vocabulary after 1066 are considered Middle English and often [...]