Voice, Journals, and Characters

English Studies finished up their group work on determining voice. We’ll be pulling it all together tomorrow. English Strategies finished their first journal entries and began the work a voice that English Studies finished up today. English I Honors students...

Final Planning, Voice, and a Beginning

English Strategies (fourth period) students began the book Nightjohn and began writing their first journal response. Tomorrow they’ll finish up their first journal response and then start a lesson on voice (see below). English Studies (fifth period) students...

Chromebooks

Almost all classes got an introduction to Chromebooks today. It wasn’t in my lesson plans, but when a teacher gets a class set of Chromebooks and the week has been a week of learning and hard work, a good reward Friday would be to go ahead and get the...