First and fifth periods finished up the first unit about school year goals and the traditional classroom. The essay is due in a week, Wednesday 19 September 2012. Afterward, we began a new unit by reading Thank You, Mr. Falker. Second and fourth periods tuned their...
Second and fourth periods began looking in earnest at how to write about literature, specifically analyzing the relationship between setting and conflict in “The Sniper.” Our notes are available here: Second period notes Fourth period notes First and fifth...
First and sixth periods worked on a short writing workshop, creating complex sentences in a first step to increasing sentence variety in our writing. Some of their notes are available here. Second and fourth periods began a new unit on the short story. We’ll be...
Today we did some group work finishing up yesterday’s Schaffer planning session in first and fifth periods followed by critical thinking practice with logic puzzles. Second and fourth periods did the same thing, minus the group work. We’ll be starting a...
First and fifth periods continued working on their first unit cumulative Schaffer-model essay. Through scaffolding, we had a day of whole-class modeling yesterday; today we took away some of the support and students worked in small groups to plan their second...
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