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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…

First Day Back

First Day Back

English I students worked on a parts-of-speech review before the (likely) test on Friday. Afterward, we began working on tone in poetry. Students received an expansive list of tone words, which...

Teacher Work Day

Teacher Work Day

We're all looking forward to seeing you guys tomorrow. We're glad to be getting back to some semblance of normal for most of us. See you tomorrow!

Waltz Completion and Argument Progress

Waltz Completion and Argument Progress

English I students finished up their work on the poem "My Papa's Waltz," determining that we have to be somewhat careful about reading too much into something based on connotation alone without...

Papa’s Waltz and Evidence

Papa’s Waltz and Evidence

English I students worked on "My Papa's Waltz" to finish out our initial work on connotations in poetry. We worked through the poem to get an initial understanding, and tomorrow we'll finish pulling...

Connotations

Connotations

English 8 students worked on their major writing project for the quarter, which they will be completing this week. Today they collaborated on potential reasons to back up their chosen topics. We...

Active/Passive Inferences

Active/Passive Inferences

English 8 students worked on their Friday inferring paragraphs as well as a bit of makeup work (as needed). We took the opportunity to work outside. [gallery type="rectangular" link="file"...

Poetry and Analysis

Poetry and Analysis

After going over transitive and intransitive verbs for fifteen minutes, English I finished their first poem: What a layered puzzle of wonderfulness! Well, I'm not sure the students all agree yet...

Argument and Poetry

Argument and Poetry

English I students began the second unit today, a short overview of poetry. We began by reading "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry." I intended to screenshot our annotations,...

Homework Only Today

Homework Only Today

I didn't get a chance to screenshot anything before I left today, so it's homework only.

Prepositions and a Second Article

Prepositions and a Second Article

English I students continued with their parts of speech review, getting out of the traditional order and skipping from adjective to prepositions in order to help students identify prepositional...

Pronouns and Evidence

Pronouns and Evidence

English I students worked on their parts-of-speech review for the first bit of class, learning about indefinite pronouns and how they're slippery fellows, sometimes transforming themselves into...

Pronouns, Development, and Evidence

Pronouns, Development, and Evidence

English I students continued their parts of speech review, going over pronouns today and learning about things like antecedents and relative pronouns. Afterward, we worked on our "Magi"/"Necklace"...