Participles and Assessment

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 topic. We’ll continue working on it tomorrow using...
Summarizing and Workshopping

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 work on the drafts, so we ended up spending the entire...
Writing and Analyzing

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 selection about “The Sniper.” English 8 students...
Planning and Plots

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 the story selected, which they will use as their first...