English 8 students did a little more group practice with the Article of the Week and how we annotate it.

Afterward, students began exploring Moodle, the course management software we’ll be using.

English I Honors students began working on the Schaffer model, a writing technique that will help students

1. make their pre-writing move effective;
2. organize their writing before they start working on a first draft; and
3. help them understand what they need to write next.

We will be practicing it for a few days before trying to apply it to literary interpretation.

Homework

• English I Honors: 
  • read one of the two letters provided in class and choose one paragraph to analyze for Schaffer completeness;
  • go to the Moodle site (user name is: first.last (first name followed by last name, with no spaces but with a period instead–and if students have a hyphenated last name, the account only includes the first part; password is “changeme”) and figure out how to turn in the electronic version of the introductory essay at the “Intro to English I Honors” unit.