Sentence Types and Presentations

First and fifth periods went through their presentations for Mary Todd Lincoln. Students presented their findings and then evaluated other groups’ presentations. Second and fourth periods worked on sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)...

Final Prep and Phrases

First and fifth periods had a final day of preparing their PowerPoint presentations on the commitment of Mary Todd Lincoln. Second and fourth periods began Great Expectations by looking at phrases before beginning the first bit of the book. Notes on phrases are...
Research and Reward

Research and Reward

First and fifth periods continued with the Mary Todd Lincoln research. We’ll be doing one more day of work on them before we actually present after the break. Second and fourth periods more or less finished up the unit on To Kill a Mockingbird with a sort of...