First and fourth periods worked on introduction paragraphs using the funnel metaphor, and then after practicing, broke into groups to attempt to write their own paragraph with a partner. The idea is to narrow a broad topic to a specific incident as quickly as...
In second and seventh periods, we continued our multi-day close-reading work with a text on empathy. We’ll be putting it all on pause for a while next week, though, as we have our final PASS preparation work. First and fourth periods began one of several small...
Second and seventh periods did some heavy lifting today, working with extensive close reading and text marking for Flowers for Algernon. We first worked to mark the text for unknown words and context clues. We then worked to determine the text structure. First and...
All classes took the Measures of Academic Progress test today. I’ll be publishing some general results as soon as all students compete the test. All homework today is the same as it was yesterday.
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