English Strategies students had a fantastic day today, working in groups to determine themes in chapter two of Nightjohn. We ended the day with a solid Class Dojo percentage, which confirmed what I...
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Socratic Discussion, Mini-Project Divided Work, and A Crazy Story
English Strategies had divided work today with some students beginning a group project that will continue through Nightjohn and others working on individual work. English Studies (fifth period)...
Meeting Nightjohn and Planning
English Strategies worked on some re-teaching practice to fix some issues that arose from last week's work. English Studies moved on to the third chapter and the accompanying journal assignment...
Friday Shortcuts
Rather than rehash the day (it's Friday and we're all tired), let's just get to the homework...
Motifs, a Journal Entry, and the Second Short Story Assignment
English Strategies (fourth period) began working in earnest on the reader's journal mini-project that goes along with the Nightjohn unit. English Studies (fifth period) began an additional...
MAP Math and Completion
All eighth-grade students took the math MAP test today, and that meant that all classes were cut to half an hour. Two days in a row of this seems like it might not be the best use of time, but...
MAP and STEAM
All eighth-graders took the MAP Reading test today, which shortened all the other classes significantly. In the other, shortened versions of class, we officially began our STEAM project for the...
Finally Friday
English I Honors students finished up yesterday's work before looking at how to evaluate their first writing assignments. (Screencasts are available here and here for students who were absent.)...
Voice, Journals, and Characters
English Studies finished up their group work on determining voice. We'll be pulling it all together tomorrow. English Strategies finished their first journal entries and began the work a voice that...
Final Planning, Voice, and a Beginning
English Strategies (fourth period) students began the book Nightjohn and began writing their first journal response. Tomorrow they'll finish up their first journal response and then start a lesson...
Text Marking, New Novel, and Schaffer Planning
Fourth period (English Strategies) students worked on marking their texts using Google Docs' comment feature that we learned and practiced yesterday. We'll be putting this to good use in the next...
First Chromebook Action and First Short Story Schaffer Planning
English 8 students continued with their introductory work with Nightjohn and their initial work with Chromebooks. English I Honors students began planning their first Schaffer model paragraph...
