English I Honors students in fourth period began a close examination of chapter twenty-four, a chapter that initially seems to have very little action but in fact is one of the most fascinating and...
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A Model, Tension, and Authority
English I Honors students in fourth period returned to the passages from Mockingbird that we were working on yesterday to begin establishing, with the help of an informational text, how Harper Lee...
Fragments, Run-Ons, Movies, and Phrases
English I Honors sixth period students completed their jigsaw work on phrases, with all students how having a working knowledge of gerunds, participles, infinities, appositives, and prepositional...
Writing, Socratic Seminar, and Jig Saw Prep
English 8 Strategies students worked on their regular Tuesday writing schedule. We're still working on our argumentative writing. Today, students were to complete the second of their three first...
Final Argument, Moral Ranking, and Milgram
English 8 Strategies began working on the fifth and final argument example in their project concerning when kids become adults. We used a modified version of this New York Times article and examined...
A Letter, Some Writing, and Verbals
English 8 Strategies students took the unexpected day in class -- come on, admit it: we were all expecting to be out today -- and continued with the regularly-scheduled Friday writing day. As a...
Catch-Up Day
Since I've been out two days, and we've had the snow day (and more to come, it seems), today was a day to consolidate and catch up so that we don't get too far behind. English 8 Strategies students...
Delay Day
With each class only thirty minutes today, everything seemed to be over before it started, and each class did just a little catch-up work. English 8 Strategies students returned to some older work...
Due Date Moved
Good news, English I'ers -- Romeo and Juliet project due date moved back a day. Be safe, drink some hot chocolate, and use the time wisely.
Jigsaw Part Two, Writing, and the Chills
Fourth period English I Honors took the next step in their jigsaw activity by breaking into their smaller groups to share with their coworkers the fruits of the larger groups' efforts. We'll...
Fish Bowl Topics, A Difficult Argument, and Sociology
Fourth period English I Honors continued with yesterday's controversial subject by reading an edited argument about the use of the pejorative term for African Americans in contemporary society....
Taboo, Run-ons, and a Tough Topic
English 8 Strategies students turned to grammar, it being Wednesday, practicing correcting run-on sentences after learning to identify them last week. We'll finish this and Monday's lesson up...
