In my wife’s home village of Jablonka, just a few miles from the Slovak border in southern Poland, there is a huge flea market every Wednesday. You can buy everything from tractor parts to dress clothes, from pig intestines (for making sausages) to cameras, from...
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter English benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. English 8 students continued with their close reading of an extremely tough text, the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. English I Honors students...
Effective readers do a lot of things without even thinking about it. It’s as if their brains are divided: half the brain engaged with reading; the other half is monitoring comprehension, connecting to prior knowledge, commenting on the text, making predictions....
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter science benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. In English I Honors we went over prepositional phrases to solve any misunderstandings from the IXL work on that topic. In English 8 we spent time on IXL...
English 8 students began working on a new STEAM unit, starting with some grammar review. We looked at the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents. We did a fair amount of practice today; tomorrow, we’ll begin applying it. English I honors looked at...
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