English 8 Strategies students began their first day of peer conferencing today, with fairly good results. We'll finish up tomorrow and then begin working in earnest on the ACT-Aspire test when we...
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Peer Conferencing, Project Planning, and Trustworthiness
English 8 Strategies students continued their week-long peer conferencing work. We finished the practice today and tomorrow will turn to actual peer conferencing. Fourth period English I Honors...
Peer Editing, Southern Voice, and Maslow
Fourth period English I Honors students completed work on the first informational text for the Lord of the Flies writing project. It was a text on Maslow's hierarchy, which we will begin applying to...
Maslow, Voice, and Peer Evaluation
English 8 Strategies began the final stages of preparation for the ACT-Aspire test. We learned how to use a form that will help us with peer evaluation. English I Honors students continued with Lord...
Completing Jig Saws and Writing
English 8 Strategies students had their weekly Friday writing session. We're finishing up our argumentative writing review and will begin our ACT-Aspire test preparation shortly. Fourth period and...
Double Start and Corrections
English 8 Strategies corrected yesterday's quiz and took care of some administrative matters. Fourth period English I Honors began a jig saw activity about phrases, the unit that always accompanies...
Writing, a Beginning, and an End
For the first time in some weeks, fourth and sixth periods -- both English I Honors classes -- are working on the same material, but fourth period is at the beginning of Lord of the Flies while...
Argument Correction and Project Work
Both periods of English I Honors worked on their respective cumulative projects, with fourth period taking a final day to complete their group planning. Fourth period students also need to take into...
Writing and Project Work
Every class was working on some sort of project or other. Four period English I Honors worked on their Mockingbird project, which is in fact six different options students chose from. Sixth period...
Run-Ons and the End of Two Units — Almost
First period had a final day of fragment/run-on practice before next week's quiz, the same as fifth period yesterday. Fourth period English I Honors students began their project for the unit on To...
Writing, Planning, and Being Detectives
Fourth period English I Honors students are nearing the conclusion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We will begin working on the culminating project shortly. Today, students analyzed the...
Temptation, Mrunas, and Argument Consolidation
English 8 Strategies students, having completed five Mondays of argument analysis, spent the first part of the class consolidating their work into a graphic organizer as we begin to use the work for...
