Friday Fun

Friday Fun

All students took their first common assessment today on standard RL-5.1: “Cite the evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.” Students worked on seven questions about a...

Science Benchmark and Quick Work

Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter science benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. In English I Honors we went over prepositional phrases to solve any misunderstandings from the IXL work on that topic. In English 8 we spent time on IXL...
Phrases and More Close Reading

Phrases and More Close Reading

In second and seventh periods, we continued our multi-day close-reading work with a text on empathy. We’ll be putting it all on pause for a while next week, though, as we have our final PASS preparation work. First and fourth periods began one of several small...

Persuasive Practice, Phrases, and Context Clues

First and sixth periods went over persuasive techniques. Things went better in sixth period, and we were able to get a bit more accomplished. We’ll continue working on persuasion for the next couple of weeks. Second and sixth periods began a whirlwind overview...

Completion and Beginnings

First and sixth periods continued with the writing workshop introductory lessons. We went over three ways to get ideas for our experiential writing: The Expert Inventory The Life Line The Inquiry List Second and fourth periods completed the parts of speech review...