English I students worked with connotation in the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden. Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Poetry and Finishing Chapter 3
English 8 students finished working on effective readers' skills and chapter three from Nightjohn. We'll be moving on to the next chapter tomorrow after we debrief today's work. English I Honors...
Socratic Planning and Effective Readers’ Skills
English 8 students continued with their effective readers' skills work for chapter three of Nightjohn. English I Honors students had a Socratic Seminar to discuss the two stories students have to...
Amontillado and Friday Individual Work
English I Honors students had a final opportunity to do some in-class writing about "The Cask of Amontillado," which is due tonight (for those who didn't finish in class) at midnight. English 8...
Themes and More Analysis
English I Honors students worked on their third analytic Schaffer paragraph, looking at the role of point of view in "The Cask of Amontillado." English 8 students began looking for instances of the...
Breakthrough and Chapter 2 — Sort Of
English I Honors students had a breakthrough with "The Cask of Amontillado." From these small points, which they determined with a bit of guidance, students came to a whole new understanding of the...
Close Reading and Comics
English 8 students finished up the first chapter of Nightjohn, wrapping up the introductory look at the elements that create a sense of voice. We also practiced some close reading to determine the...
Poe and Voice
English 8 students continued finished up chapter one of Nightjohn by looking at voice. We'll be pulling everything together tomorrow. English I Honors students began looking at Poe's "A Cask of...
Point of View
English I Honors students began working on the next analytic Schaffer paragraph, which will have to do with perspective and point of view. We began the segment by reading "In the Family," which...
Schaffer Planning and Voice
English I students struggled a bit with the latest Schaffer paragraph dealing with character motivation in "Thank You, Ma'am." We'll be starting our next paragraph tomorrow. English 8 began looking...
MAP Testing Day 2
MAP testing for everyone. That's about it.
MAP Fall 2016 Day 1
Everyone on the eighth-grade hall took the reading MAP test today, which resulted in shorted class periods -- thirty minutes to be exact. All classes went over the first article of the week that...
