English 8 students began a two-day independent practice engagement in which students have been working to determine the main idea of a text and then (more challenging — much more) determine how a selected passage from the text contributes to the development of the main idea. In other words, it’s what we did yesterday and Thursday only kids are now doing it on their own.
Fifth- and sixth-period students who were absent can watch this video of the class.
English I kids worked on prepositional phrases today, learning the difference between adjectival and adverbial phrases.
Afterward, students continued working on the research mini-project connected to the Odyssey.
Students who were absent from third or fourth periods can watch this video of the class.
Homework
- English 8: work on the one-pager (due next Tuesday) as needed (also on Google Classroom).
- English I Honors:
- work on the No Red Ink for prepositional phrases;
- work on the Google Classroom prepositional phrases practice as needed;
- work on the one-pager (due next Tuesday) as needed (also on Google Classroom).
Standards for Today
- RI-11.1 Analyze the impact of text features and structures on authors’ similar ideas or claims about the same topic.
- I-3.1 Develop a plan of action by using appropriate discipline-specific strategies.
- I-3.3 Gather information from a variety of primary and secondary sources and evaluate for perspective, validity, and bias.
- I-3.4 Organize and categorize important information; synthesize relevant ideas to build a deeper understanding; communicate new learning; identify implications for future inquiry.
- W-4.1 b. When writing identify and use gerunds, infinitives, and participles;
- W-4.1 e. When writing use noun, verb, adjectival, adverbial, participial, prepositional, and absolute phrases and independent, dependent, noun relative, and adverbial clauses to convey specific meanings and add variety and interest to writing.
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