First and sixth periods finished working on their political cartoon projects.
Second and fourth periods worked through the first chapter of Great Expectations.
More detailed information and examples are here.
Seventh period worked on their writing project for Monsters.
First and sixth periods worked on their political cartoon projects. We did some planning and began creating our posters.
Second and sixth periods got a taste of Dickens’ London with a short animated biography of the great British writer and a game in which young “Kit” (a play on “Pip”) explores London.
Seventh period began organizing their essays in response to our drama unit.
More images from today’s work are in the gallery.
Rubrics both for English I’s propaganda business letter and eighth grade English’s persuasive essay have been updated. (I will upload the eighth grade rubric tomorrow from school.)
First and sixth periods did some work with the Schaffer model of organization. Together we wrote an example Schaffer model paragraph; I’ve put one of the paragraphs online as an example for others.
For second and fourth periods, it was the big day: students turned in and played the Odyssey board games they’ve been working on. Pictures are available here.
Seventh period had a split day: those students who didn’t do the homework went to one side of the room to do yesterday’s homework. The remaining students did group work, reviewing plot organization and analyzing the plot from “The Amigo Brothers.” We finished up by creating foldables of the major elements of the plot.
We’ll stick with homework alone today.
First and second periods were spent at the Donaldson Career Center. Students had an opportunity to see some of the courses offered and talk with current students.
Fourth period worked on the Odyssey project.
Sixth period completed the source evaluation practice and began researching for their persuasive writing assignment.
First and sixth periods worked on evaluating web sources as we move the the research phase of our unit on persuasive writing. We’ll be spending a bit more time in the lab this week, researching our topics.
Second and fourth periods went over appositives and appositive phrases in a flash before spending the rest of the period working on the Odyssey project. We’ll be having a small test on phrases next Monday.
Seventh period used Freytag diagrams to examine the plot of a couple of short stories.
First and sixth periods learned about persuasive techniques.
Second and sixth periods continued working on the Odyssey project. Today was one of the final days of full in-class preparation. The project will likely be due 21 October (but no earlier).
Seventh period read “Papa’s Parrot” as we continue working on context clues for words and narrative structure.
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First period had their exam — all exams are now complete. Fourth period completed the Great Expectations research project.
Steps for today’s World War II research project. Before you begin, make sure you read all the steps and understand them.
