Introduction: The Funnel

Introduction: The Funnel

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...
Phrases and More Close Reading

Phrases and More Close Reading

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...
Text Marking and Project Work

Text Marking and Project Work

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...

MAP Spring 2014

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.

MAP Spring 2014

Waiting for MAP results when things are going this well is it must have been like in the “old days” when expectant fathers paced in the waiting room.