English 8 students did some more work with the article of the week, looking at the context clues for “refraining.” We also completed “Thank You, Ma’am,” going through the first review of effective readers’ skills. English I Honors...
English 8 students made the shift from a think-aloud to the “Same Something” protocol — in other words, the kids began implementing effective readers’ skills. We’re forming the foundational techniques for tackling all the texts we will...
English 8 students began looking at the basic skills that will inform everything we read this year: effective readers’ skills. We started with the AOW, their first: We finished with a Think Aloud for “Thank You, Ma’am,” a story by Langston...
Third and fourth periods tried their hand at their first Schaffer paragraph, which was about, somewhat ironically, the usefulness of the Schaffer paragraph. Third period Schaffer helps writers plan in an organized fashion what to write next. For example, there is a...
English I Honors students took the day to analyze, first as a class and later in pairs, a few nearly-perfect examples of Schaffer paragraphs. English 8 students got thrown in the deep water to see how well they swim: we determined we need a refresher on how...
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