English 8 Studies and Strategies both went over some additional steps for annotating the article of the week. Afterward, Strategies went over yesterday's test while Studies did some practice...
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A Test, a Quiz, and More
English 8 Strategies students had a test on the MAP preparation work they completed over the last few days. We'll be starting a new unit as soon as MAP testing is over this week. English 8 Studies...
Practice Test, Wrapping Up, and Turning In
English I Honors had time to complete a final check of their work for the Romeo and Juliet project before turning it in. English 8 Studies had their final day of literature circles for the first...
Cyclops, Figurative Language, and Lit Circles
English 8 Studies (fifth period) continued working on the first round of their lit circles. We'll be finishing up tomorrow and debriefing to decide how to change up the groups before moving on to...
Odyssey, Lit Circles, and Figurative Language Practice
English 8 Strategies continued with their MAP review, practicing again with some figurative language practice. We'll finish up tomorrow before having a bit of review for a small test (covering the...
Figurative Language, Poetry, and Calypso
English I Honors finished up a bit of work on Calypso, looking at two additional renditions and a short informational text about the etymology of her name. Afterward, students did a bit of comparing...
Poetry, Point of View, and Calypso
English 8 Strategies (fourth period) students continued their pre-MAP review with a bit of practice with point of view and the narrator. English 8 Studies began the second part of our lit...
Conflict, Lit Circles, and the Opening Lines
English 8 Strategies continued with our short review for the MAP test by going over types of conflict and identifying them. We'll continue the review next week, but we're now one day ahead of plans....
Odyssey, Inferences, and Reading Groups
English 8 Strategies students worked on the second half of the inferences review work. We'll finish up tomorrow before moving on to other review topic for the MAP test. English 8 Studies students...
New Starts All Around
All classes started new units today. English I Honors will be working on the Odyssey while English Studies students work on The Glory Field. English Strategies students will be joining the Studies...
Tests
All students had tests today. We'll all be starting new units tomorrow.
Project Work
Everyone today was working on projects in one form or another. English 8 students did some preparatory work for a project they will do in writing class later. English I Honors students worked on...
