English 8 Strategies students worked today on sentence variety since it's Wednesday (and we all know what Wednesday means: writer's craft!), and both classes had an excellent session as we looked at...
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Test Overview, Binder Control, and Sound Devices
English 8 Strategies students went over last Friday's test and had some long-overdue binder control, reorganizing binders and for some, creating new binders. Students need the following four tabs in...
Connotation and Argument
English I Honors practiced the second type of Socratic seminar today in discussing "Those Winter Sundays" and the effect connotation has on it. English 8 Strategies finished up their first argument,...
Connotations and a Test
English 8 Strategies completed a test on the Schaffer model and the argument today, and creative writing continued working on individual student projects, including material for the main Hughes web...
Connotations and Verb Phrases
English 8 Strategies turned again to grammar -- after all, it is Thursday -- and we looked at verb phrases, looking to identify them in sentences as we work toward a fuller understanding of verbals....
Advice and a Quiz
English I Honors students finished the first poetry lesson, a two-and-a-half-day lesson (though only planned as a two-day lesson) covering the EQ "How is poetry different from other forms of...
Application
English 8 Strategies students (first and fifth periods) worked on a final Schaffer model paragraph. We will begin using them in our general writing next week. Fourth and sixth period students...
Argument and Poetry
As it's Monday, English 8 Strategies students returned to the argument. We looked at a new murder mystery for students to solve and had some pair work as students developed an argument about the...
Solo Schaffer and Logic
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...
Verbs and Preparation
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...
Ironic Sentences
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...
Schaffer and Irony
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...
