All classes conducted their first Socratic Seminars today. Fourth and fifth periods discussed the story "The Blue Stones" while sixth and seventh periods talked about the role technology plays in...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Workshop and Inference
English 8 students worked on their Friday inferring writing work. We're still on the same text about Paul and Alice, this time focusing on the nature of their relationship. English I students...
Major Grades and CFAs
English 8 students took their first district-required (or perhaps it's just school-required -- I'm not sure) CFA today on summarizing. Since we're not using Mastery Connect exclusively for the CFAs...
Plot Analysis and Ephipanies
English 8 students finished up "There Will Come Soft Rains" and did a plot analysis of the story. Tomorrow we'll finish up with practice creating a summary. English I students continued discussing...
Reading Rains and Casks
English 8 students finished up reading "There Will Come Soft Rains" as the second story in our first unit. We'll be analyzing its plot and working to summarize it tomorrow and Thursday. English I...
Soft Rains and Sentence Parsing
English 8 students began their second short story, which they will be analyzing on their own as opposed to the class version we did with the first short story. Today students began a two-day period...
Parsing Sentences and Inference Work
English I students worked on parsing long sentences in confusing texts as we began reading "The Cask of Amontillado" We'll be using this for the second story in our short story analytic writing...
Second Story Cycle Planning and Participles
English I students worked on their second cycle of short stories and analytic paragraphs. Today we read "In the Family," an odd story about a seemingly magic mirror that everyone seems just to...
Participles and Feedback
English 8 students finished, in accordance with the district pacing guide, a couple of lessons covering participles and participial phrases. We worked on materials from the workbook -- practice with...
Participles and Assessment
English 8 students worked on a grammar lesson on participles, connected with our current story "The Brave Little Toaster." We used this slide show with embedded Pear Deck questions to introduce the...
Summarizing and Workshopping
English I students were going to spend half the day finishing up their final drafts of their "Dangerous Game" analytic paragraphs. However, we discovered quickly enough that we needed more time to...
Writing and Analyzing
English I students worked on their first analytic paragraph, which is about "The Most Dangerous Game." We worked in groups to focus our topic sentence after looking at the rubric and a model...