We completed the final day of group work for the memoir today. We’ll be spending two more days polishing it up, and then turn it in Monday.
English I began verbs today. We’ll finish up tomorrow, testing willing.
The testing in question is the Explore test. We’ll be taking that test Thursday and Friday.
Homework

First and seventh periods: [...]

First, second, and seventh periods began working on memoir revision. We used the memoir peer revision graphic organizer to begin working with a partner to improve our writing.
Fourth period continued with Antigone.
Homework

First, second, and seventh periods: none.
Fourth period: outline two examples of how Antigone illustrates the four basic premises of sociology that we looked at [...]

First period began revising their research papers. Fourth and sixth periods applied yesterday’s lesson to their own papers.
EQs were the same as yesterday.
No homework.

First period began working on their second draft by examining the second indicator of the PASS writing rubric and breaking it down into its individual parts. We did this for the first indicator some weeks ago; now we’re adding a second indicator: organization.
It’s always helpful to break down rubrics as far as possible, though, and [...]

First, fourth, and sixth periods worked on revising some of their diary entries for:

clarity of content;
descriptive details; and
sentence variety.

Students looked at each other’s work to find elements that could be improved, then worked in pairs to improve them.
Second period continued working on their poetry projects. They’ve got quite a bit to get finished, so we’ll [...]

Since I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not stressing writing enough, I’m in the process of re-planning some lessons. As such, first, fourth, and sixth periods worked revision strategies today, using the history of Anne Frank as a thematic base. We looked at three ways of revising:

For clarity of meaning
For descriptive details
For sentence variety.

We [...]