Effective readers do a lot of things without even thinking about it. It’s as if their brains are divided: half the brain engaged with reading; the other half is monitoring comprehension, connecting to prior knowledge, commenting on the text, making predictions....
English 8 had review of participles before tomorrow’s test, which will include information about participles. English I Honors worked on parsing long Shakespearian sentences. We worked on sonnet 29: We began by looking at a long sentence that has syntactical...
English 8 students worked on participles in anticipation of the coming test Tuesday on Nightjohn, effective readers’ skills, voice/diction, and participles. English I Honors students learned what the mysterious line is that we’ve been drawing in some...
English I Honors worked on tightening their topic sentences again. It’s not what I originally planned on doing, but seeing the need, I tried to remedy it somewhat today. English 8 students hit one of the grammar standards today, working to recognize participles...
English I students went over part three of our phrase-blitz, going through gerunds in less than a period. Easy-peasy, right? English 8 students continued with their Harriet Tubman annotation/discussion project. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I...
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