English 8 students finished up text structures with a light game of game-play: a Gimkit and a Kahoot. Virtually everyone demonstrated that they have mastered text structure identification. English I students looked at Homeric similes, which are strange,...
English I Honors worked on mastering the Homeric simile, something that’s initially fairly but deceptively straightforward. Close reading, in other words. English 8 students had a final day of practice with figurative language. We’ll finish up poetry in...
English 8 Strategies (fourth period) students continued their pre-MAP review with a bit of practice with point of view and the narrator. English 8 Studies began the second part of our lit circles/Glory Field unit which will include selected reading of poetry and...
First and Fourth Periods had a short quiz on Odysseus’s encounter with the Lotus Eaters and Polyphemus. They also worked on locating Homeric Similes. Second and seventh periods worked on jigsaw reading for Flowers for Algernon after going over the text structure...
First and fifth periods almost completed the Nightjohn film we’re watching as a culmination to our unit on tradition and change. We’ll be writing an argumentative essay next week as the capstone to the quarter. Second and fourth periods continued with the...
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