English 8 Strategies students wrote their first solo Schaffer paragraphs today. It was a bit of a challenge for first period because I did not do enough scaffolding (mea culpa), but we’ll correct that next Tuesday. A couple of reminders for English 8 Strategies...
English I Honors students spent the day working on their final project for the short story/writing about literature unit. That will be due next Friday. English 8 Strategies students actually did two different things today: first period worked on identifying subjects...
English 8 Strategies, it being Wednesday, returned to the sentence, looking again at sentences that begin with participial phrases. We completed the sentence-combining work we began in class Thursday. Mr. Jones was yelling at his neighbor. He looked like he was going...
English 8 Strategies returned to writing as it’s Tuesday: we worked on a new Schaffer paragraph with the topic “The best part of the day is ______,” taking time only to write the first chunk and plan as a class potential second (and third and...
It being Monday, English 8 Strategies students returned to work on the argument, adding counterargument and rebuttal to our notes. Students have now covered all elements of the argument and will continue working to identify and create arguments. We began the process...
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