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Socratic Conclusion

English 8 students finished up yesterday's text marking and went over the Class Dojo information for the week. I'll be sending individualized weekly reports home with students in fourth and fifth...

Transitions and Anti-Semetism

English 8 students worked on effective readers' skills and text elements with a piece about the rise of anti-Semitism in contemporary Germany. Students in English I Honors worked on transitional...

Soliloquy and Text Structures

Soliloquy and Text Structures

English 8 students completed the fourth signpost, the "Memory Moment" signpost. We applied it to the most recent scene we'd read in Diary of Anne Frank and then shifted our focus to informational...

Memory Moment and Project Concerns

English I Honors students went over the project for Romeo and Juliet. We will be working on transition paragraphs soon, and the project itself will be starting up shortly. English 8 students...

2.2 and 4.1

English I Honors students began applying the idea of subtext to 4.1 and 4.1 of Romeo and Juliet. We're looking to see how various characters are saying multiple things at the same time. English 8...

Aha and Subtext

English I Honors began looking at subtext in anticipation of act four. English 8 students began the third reading sign post, the "Aha Moment."

Semester Exam and Contrast/Contradiction

English 8 students (both fourth and fifth periods) almost finished up the contrast/contradiction sign post. Fourth period still needs a bit of work (see homework below). English I Honors had the...

Exam Prep and the New Signpost

English I students today had a chance to prepare for tomorrow's midterm. (If you do not have the poems any more, you can get them here. Bear in mind, though, that this document includes some poems...

Test and Signposts

English 8 students began the second sign post, "Contrasts and Contradictions." English I Honors students had their act three tests. It was somewhat of an experiment, and it didn't seem to go as well...

Test Prep and a New Sign Post

English Studies finished up the work on the "Again and Again" sign post and began the next sign post, which is "Contrasts and Contradictions." English Strategies finished up work on the "Again and...

Cutting and 2.2

English Studies and English Strategies students went through 2.2 from Diary of Anne Frank in literature circles. Tomorrow we'll be applying yesterday's work with the "Again and Again" sign post to...

Cutting Again and Again

English Studies and Strategies students began learning strategies from Kylene Beers's and Robert Probst's Notice and Note. We started with one that's fairly simple, "Again and Again." We applied it...

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