English I students worked on some of the hidden stage instructions in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet : ROMEO […] Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Mab and Final Drafts
English 8 students are finishing up their analytic paragraphs on "The Christmas Gift," a chapter from The Circuit. The kids did some amazing work today and made substantial progress on the project....
Assessing and 1.2
English 8 students assessed some others' work (anonymously, of course) from last week when we were working on quote integrating and making flow quotes: English I students worked on 1.2 from Romeo...
More Quote Embedding and the Fight
English 8 students continued working on embedding quotes more effectively, creating essentially flow quotes instead of simple dialogue quotes. English I students continued working with 1.1, making...
Flow Quote Practice and the Opening Scene
English 8 students worked on their flow quotes a little more today. This round of practice will be significantly more challenging: not only do I not supply the quotes but also I don't supply the...
Tech-Free Library Day
Today, two worlds converged: Tech-Free Tuesday and library day. So all kids went to the library today to get a new book, and all kids worked without Chromebooks -- teachers, too, as much as...
Prologue and Flow Quotes
English I students began the day with more work on parallel structure, a topic we've been covering mainly through No Red Ink practice. worked on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. We've marked it for...
Parallel Structure and Quote Embedding
English I students, before playing a final round of the Odyssey game, worked on a review of the material they have been studying independently in No Red Ink: parallel structure. One of the most...
Game Play and Quote Integration
English 8 students are working on improving their quote integration as they read selections from The Circuit. Today, I showed them how to embed their quotes more elegantly than simply saying, "the...
Games and a New Unit
English 8 students began a new unit on informational texts. We'll be working on it through the end of the semester in three short weeks. English I students had the final game of Odyssey game...
Project and Prep
English 8 students went through a Gimkit practice session before tomorrow's test on text structures. English I students worked on their projects for the Odyssey. [gallery size="medium"...
Project Work, the TDA Example, and Text Structures
We're still working on text structures in English 8. We took the final formative assessment for the district-required goal-setting assignment, which I also tied into the district-required Common...