English Studies students (fifth period) looked at an actual diary entry from Anne’s diary that corresponds with what we’ve been reading in class. While they compared that with our play text, I had time to consult one-on-one with students regarding their classwork/homework from yesterday, which was actually to annotate the diary entry using our Effective Readers’ Skills. We went over our next focus skill, which is monitoring comprehension and fixing up problems by looking at one passage in the diary entry:

English Strategies students (fourth period) worked on their first summary for Anne Frank.