English 8 Strategies students practiced the Socratic Seminar engagement, something that I used to do a lot more often when I taught both writing and literature but that I now do rarely. Since we’ll be working again on argument, focusing first on a review of the...
First and fifth periods began looking at Cornell notes, something they’ll likely be required to use in high school. We reviewed the notes from yesterday then converted them into a Cornell style. Second and fourth periods looked at 4.3 of Romeo and Juliet. We...
First and seventh periods finished up the poetry units with a look at imagery and a final poem. Second period began a short unit on persuasive writing. First and seventh periods will start tomorrow. Fourth period began a short writing project to wrap up To Kill a...
First, second, and seventh periods wrapped up the first act of Anne Frank. We’ll be doing the second act in a much shorter time, finishing by the middle of next week. Fourth period continued its poetry unit, with students teaching today about imagery and the...
First, second, and seventh periods completed the first act of the Diary of Anne Frank. We’ll wrap up loose ends tomorrow and probably have a quiz on it Wednesday before starting act two. Fourth period began their poetry projects. The first pair almost completed...
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