First and sixth periods continued with the short story unit, practicing effective reader’s skills with a Say Something engagement. We’ll be finishing the unit on short stories this week and having a test on the unit next Tuesday, December 6. Second and...
First period continued with the writing focus experiment. We added sharing into our daily writing workshop focus. It was the first peer conferencing session, so it was far from perfect, but we did well: Students got feedback and had an opportunity to perform a...
First period continued working on how to find ideas for writing. We looked at T-charts. Second and sixth periods completed the ballad “Boots of Spanish Leather” and began working on the second ballad, “The Ballad of Birmingham.” Fourth period...
Welcome back! I’m thrilled to get back to work, and I know everyone else is, too. (And I am not being sarcastic: I wouldn’t joke about my commitment to education.) First period began a several-week experimental writing workshop model. We went over how...
Image via Wikipedia First and fourth period were both engaged in inductive reasoning to come up definitions. First period has been defining propaganda. After looking at specific examples of Nazi propaganda yesterday, we came up with a class list of characteristics of...
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