Research, Prep, and Empathy

Research, Prep, and Empathy

17 First and seventh periods are still working on their projects. Fourth period is still researching, though today we spent some time going over citations. (I’ve created instructions on formatting hanging indents.) Second period continued with Flowers for...
Research, Prep, and a Film

Research, Prep, and a Film

18 First and seventh periods worked on their project for The Glory Field. Second period relaxed a bit: we watched Charly, the film version of Flowers for Algernon. Fourth period continued researching for their Great Expectation critical essay. Homework...
Projects and Perspective

Projects and Perspective

19 First and seventh periods began working on the Glory Field Project. We’ll be spending most of our time until the end of the year working on them. Second period looked at perspective in Flowers for Algernon. Fourth period continued research for the...
Researching Parallel Apostrophies

Researching Parallel Apostrophies

20 First and seventh periods reached the absolutely best part of The Glory Field today, and the novel (which we are close to finishing) has come full circle. Second period worked on apostrophes — one of the many mistakes Charlie makes in his progress reports in...

Venn, Research, Performance

First and seventh periods continued with The Glory Field. We’ve begun the final section, set in 1994, and we will be using comparison/contrast as our method of analysis for this section. Second period continued with Flowers for Algernon. Fourth period began...