English I students worked on an examination of how various artists throughout history have represented the story of Calypso in the Odyssey. We began by examining the etymology of the word and came up with a rough Schaffer outline for our thoughts: Afterward, we looked...
English 8 students went over the anticipation guide for their new unit which will cover determining the main idea, summarizing, determining the theme, and examining point of view. We will be using Flowers for Algernon as our anchor text. English I students worked on...
English 8 students had a test on Schaffer today. We’ll start a new unit tomorrow. English I students began planning their second Schaffer paragraph, this time on Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” and the question of whether or not we can...
English I students finished up going over the three tricks for parsing tricky passages: We looked a little more closely at the second method (looking for interrupters) in conjunction with the third method (clear up pronoun/antecedent ambiguity). It can lead to new...
All students went to the library today for the first day of checkout and in-library reading. English 8 students completed their first real Schaffer paragraphs. We competed our TS and CDs and joined them with what we’d done yesterday to create some effective...
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