English Studies began their final project for the Nightjohn unit, a project which focuses on themes in the novel. Students will be integrating Prezi with audio recordings to make a self-presenting...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Planning and SWBS
English I Honors spent another day planning their short story major project. They will have about another week to work on it. English Strategies and English Studies completed major chapters...
Themes, Modeling, and a Project
English I Honors had some time today to work on the culminating project for the short stories unit. English Studies worked on their theme exploration of Nightjohn. English Strategies finished up...
Effective Readers and a Heart
English I Honors students had a few minutes to work on their last assignment for the short story unit before beginning the cumulative project. English Studies and English Strategies worked...
Final Planning and Nightjohn
English Studies students (fifth period) began chapter five in Nightjohn, and we began slowly transitioning our effective reader skills/"It Says, I Say" work to its intended end: small discussion...
Just the Homework
As Sgt. Joe Friday might say if he were a teacher on a Friday afternoon, "Just the homework, ma'am. Just the homework."
Context Clues, Final Story Planning, and Self-Assessment
English Strategies (fourth period) finished up working on a text about traditions slaves brought with them from Africa and using context clues in the text to determine what words mean. It was slower...
Pair Application, Finishing Four, and Final Story
English Strategies students (fourth period) applied the skills they worked on during Monday's and Tuesday's classes with a partner to a new selection, an informational text about slaves and...
Effective Readers, Context Clues, and Irony
English I Honors students began their final set of stories for the short story/writing about literature unit. We'll be finishing the unit up this week and moving on to poetry. English Strategies...
Effective Readers, Planning, and Context Clues
English Studies began working on chapter four of Nightjohn, using effective readers' skills to interact with the text. We'll finish up tomorrow and write our latest journal entry. English Strategies...
Moodle, Narrators, and Context Clues
English Strategies students (fourth period) had an administrative day: getting passwords for various sites squared away and saved, learning about a new site (Moodle), and doing weekly...
Context Clues, Magical Realism, and Meeting Nightjohn
English Studies continued with yesterday's work on using context clues to determine a word's meaning. We have four rules from yesterday that they began applying today: Look for synonyms/definitions...
