Balcony and Applied Outlines

English 8 students began applying their summarizing and outlining skills to a short chapter in The Seven Habits of Effective Teens. We’ll be working on this through winter break. English I Honors students began the balcony scene, making it through the first few...

Outlining The Nurse and Juliet

All classes spent a little time on the article of the week. I provided students with some additional help in the form of a stems list to help students determine words from context. English I students finished up work on implied blocking in  Shakespeare by looking at a...
Outlining and Inferred Blocking

Outlining and Inferred Blocking

All classes began with more in-depth practice with the Article of the Week assignment. English I Honors students began applying what we learned yesterday about implied blocking included in Romeo and Juliet. Specifically, we looked at this small passage from Capulet:...

Scene 5 and Summarizing

English 8 students began working on an extended exercise with standard RI-6.1: “Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their development.” Today we reviewed briefly how to create a...
Summary and Half a Benchmark

Summary and Half a Benchmark

English 8 students were scheduled to take the district-created, district-mandated benchmark test for the second quarter. Due to technical difficulties out of the control of the school or the district, we were unable to take the test. Instead, we continued with...