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Flow Quote Practice and the Opening Scene

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

TDA 1

TDA 1

We had our first TDA practice test today. Since we were all writing ourselves silly (literally for hours) and only had 30 minutes of class, we sent our meager class time outside.

Questions to Discuss with Your Child

Questions to Discuss with Your Child

As we near the middle of the second quarter, here are some questions to help stimulate meaningful discussions with your child about his/her mid-quarter grade.

TDA Prep, Text Structures, and the Odyssey Game

TDA Prep, Text Structures, and the Odyssey Game

English I and English 8 students went over the coming TDA, planning a bit how to attack Thursday's prompt. We, of course, did not go over the actual prompt but discussed how to attack a prompt in...