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First Diary Entry with Effective Readers’ Skills and Subordinate Clauses
Grammar and effective readers
Independent Clauses and Empathy
English 8 students began a new unit today on the Diary of Anne Frank, our final major reading selection for the year. We began with an anticipation lesson designed to get students empathetic to Anne...
Connective Tissue and Inferrences
English I students today went over how to connect songs in the Romeo and Juliet project. We made a brief summary of each of my example paragraphs to begin with: We then determined which paragraphs...
Final Test Prep and Project Work
Research and figurative passive
Romeo’s Final Speech and Research
English 8 students worked on their second of three days of research for their argumentative writing project. When we come back Tuesday, we'll have one final day of reading/research. English I Honors...
Writing the Paper, Reviewing Elliptical Construction, and Starting the Argument
English I students went over a quick review of elliptical construction in 3.5 and compared it to the first example we saw in 1.4 (the Mab speech). We noted two things: There is always a pattern in...
Figurative Language and the End of Act 3
English 8 students finished up a week-and-a-half reading of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, looking especially at King's use of figurative language: Working together we saw that...
Projects and Ink
English I students began the Romeo and Juliet project in earnest, looking at how the song "Decoration Day" has similarities to the action of 3.1 in the play. The link for the English I class...
3.1 and Reading
English I students went through act 3 scene 1 today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUYi7FIAJdk Students noted that the situation for Romeo's and Juliet's love is now worse in several ways: The...
Soundtrack and Conclusions
English I students went over the project that we'll be completing with Romeo and Juliet. I provided students with a sample that we then analyzed in terms of Schaffer completeness and accuracy: The...
Watching and Inferring
Inferring and watching