English I Honors students completed the parts of speech presentations. They’ve now covered all eight parts of speech:

• nouns
• pronouns
• adjectives
• verbs
• adverbs
• prepositions
• conjunctions
• interjections

We’ll begin practicing and quizzing on it next week.

They also began planning their third analytic Schaffer model paragraph, this time on “Thank You, Ma’am.”

English 8 students worked through chapter three of Nightjohn. We’re working toward mastery of effective reader’s skills by implementing a modified “It Says/I Say” strategy.

Homework

• English 8: complete today’s work on chapter three.
• English I Honors: 
  • determine a TS and quotes for a CD from today’s Schaffer planning work;
  • determine the part of speech for each of these sentences:
    • All people should ask themselves if they are doing the best they can with the talents they have.
    • All gave some; some gave all.
    • It seems unlikely that anyone could hold their breath for such a very long time, but the world record is over twenty-four minutes.