First Drafts, Front and Back

First period looked at their first drafts and began narrowing down their topics. (Often students have multiple topics in one first draft.) We’ll be writing a second draft in class tomorrow, as well as doing additional revision. Second and sixth periods worked on...

Nouns and Assorted Parts of Speech

First period completed pronouns, looking at how some words usually thought to be pronouns (indefinite and demonstrative) can also be adjectives depending on the context. Second and sixth periods went through a super-quick review of nouns. Fourth period completed the...

Peer Revision, Antigone, and Prepositions

First, second, and seventh periods all worked in pairs on revising their memoirs, using the Memoir Assessment tool. Tomorrow, first, second, and seventh periods have the test on stems list 21. Fourth period is almost done with Antigone. We’ll finish up tomorrow....

Completion and Prepositions

I was out ill Thursday and Friday, hence the lack of progress reports. First period completed The Giver. We began a culminating project: a newspaper from Jonas’s community. Our publishing date will be approximately one week after Jonas leaves. We finished the...