Students went over the first AOWs (article of the week) today, looking at all the context clues that were in place for “straw men.” Afterward, we did some workshopping on our “Gift of the Magi”/”The Necklace” paragraphs. We...
English 8 students began a new unit after going over the first new term in the week’s AOW: Afterward, we started preparing for the new unit. English I Honors students went over last week’s AOW: Afterward, we evaluated a number of initial topic sentences...
English 8 students went over one more word from the article of the week before transitioning to one of the most enjoyable activities we do: the Socratic Seminar. Today we only had time to get everything in place and go over what we’re to do. English I Honors...
English 8 students began looking at the basic skills that will inform everything we read this year: effective readers’ skills. We started with the AOW, their first: We finished with a Think Aloud for “Thank You, Ma’am,” a story by Langston...
English 8 students continued with the second part of yesterday’s lesson by applying what we’d learned to a text about how slaves retained many of their traditions while still enslaved. We’ll be examining the argument in the text tomorrow. English I...
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