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...
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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...
Planning and Plots
English I students worked on the planning for their first Schaffer paragraph on "The Most Dangerous Game." Students should have a good idea of their topic sentences and should have two passages from...
Discussion and Finishing Reading
English I students discussed informally in randomly formed groups the question of how the setting of "The Most Dangerous Game" affects the plot. We came up with several ideas: We'll be using these...
Integrating Quotes and Annotating the Text
English I students finished up their first model selection, and we walked through the type of analytic paragraph we'll be working on in this first unit. Afterward, we worked on integrating quotes...
First Readings
All classes began the day learning how the starters/bell-ringers in my class work. English I students continued working on their first unit today, reading their first model selection for our initial...
Analyzing, Summarizing, Observing, and Inferring
English I students worked today on the first lesson of our short story unit. This unit instructs students on the basics of literary analysis, helps students discern the difference between analyzing...
First Day 2024
Our first day is behind us! What a great group of kids we have on our team. We're all excited about working with them this year. English I students spent the day going over letters from last year's...