Point of View

Point of View

English I Honors students began working on the next analytic Schaffer paragraph, which will have to do with perspective and point of view. We began the segment by reading “In the Family,” which raises all sorts of questions about the narrator’s...
Sentence Types and Inferring Word Meaning

Sentence Types and Inferring Word Meaning

First period learned about clauses. Students learned about the two types of clauses, independent and dependent, and then looked at some practice exercises from the writing textbook. Today, fourth period began with a PASS review, and then began our study of the types...
Inferring Word Meaning and Motifs

Inferring Word Meaning and Motifs

Today in first, they discussed chapters 1-10 of Great Expectations. Included in this discussion, are different aspects of the book and how they will use these aspects to create the final project using three sources. Information from the Moodle site about the project...
Inferring Schaffer

Inferring Schaffer

First and fourth periods worked on the Schaffer model for body paragraphs. We began by looking at an example paragraph from a couple of years ago, looking for claims and evidence. The class can be hard but it’ll teach you so many things you can use in the future. For...