English 8 students are finishing up their analytic paragraphs on "The Christmas Gift," a chapter from The Circuit. The kids did some amazing work today and made substantial progress on the project....
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Assessing and 1.2
English 8 students assessed some others' work (anonymously, of course) from last week when we were working on quote integrating and making flow quotes: English I students worked on 1.2 from Romeo...
More Quote Embedding and the Fight
English 8 students continued working on embedding quotes more effectively, creating essentially flow quotes instead of simple dialogue quotes. English I students continued working with 1.1, making...
Flow Quote Practice and the Opening Scene
English 8 students worked on their flow quotes a little more today. This round of practice will be significantly more challenging: not only do I not supply the quotes but also I don't supply the...
Tech-Free Library Day
Today, two worlds converged: Tech-Free Tuesday and library day. So all kids went to the library today to get a new book, and all kids worked without Chromebooks -- teachers, too, as much as...
Prologue and Flow Quotes
English I students began the day with more work on parallel structure, a topic we've been covering mainly through No Red Ink practice. worked on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. We've marked it for...
Parallel Structure and Quote Embedding
English I students, before playing a final round of the Odyssey game, worked on a review of the material they have been studying independently in No Red Ink: parallel structure. One of the most...
Game Play and Quote Integration
English 8 students are working on improving their quote integration as they read selections from The Circuit. Today, I showed them how to embed their quotes more elegantly than simply saying, "the...
Games and a New Unit
English 8 students began a new unit on informational texts. We'll be working on it through the end of the semester in three short weeks. English I students had the final game of Odyssey game...
Project and Prep
English 8 students went through a Gimkit practice session before tomorrow's test on text structures. English I students worked on their projects for the Odyssey. [gallery size="medium"...
Project Work, the TDA Example, and Text Structures
We're still working on text structures in English 8. We took the final formative assessment for the district-required goal-setting assignment, which I also tied into the district-required Common...
TDA 1
We had our first TDA practice test today. Since we were all writing ourselves silly (literally for hours) and only had 30 minutes of class, we sent our meager class time outside.