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 of reading and annotating the story “There Will Come Soft...
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 unit. English 8 students worked on the newly-initiated...
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 expect without much surprise or concern. English 8 students...
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 identifying participles. The switch from isolated participles...
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 topic. We’ll continue working on it tomorrow using...
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