Socratic Seminar and Planning

Socratic Seminar and Planning

English 8 students had their first Socratic Seminar to discuss the statements we wrote about yesterday during our anticipatory session for our new unit. Sometimes, it’s better to remain ignorant about certain things. It’s fair to treat people differently...
Test and Schaffer Planning

Test and Schaffer Planning

English 8 students had a test on Schaffer today. We’ll start a new unit tomorrow. English I students began planning their second Schaffer paragraph, this time on Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” and the question of whether or not we can...
Parsing Continued and Test Prep

Parsing Continued and Test Prep

English I students finished up going over the three tricks for parsing tricky passages: We looked a little more closely at the second method (looking for interrupters) in conjunction with the third method (clear up pronoun/antecedent ambiguity). It can lead to new...
Parsing and No Red Ink

Parsing and No Red Ink

English 8 students worked on No Red Ink practice with Schaffer paragraphs, determining the claim, evidence, and reasoning (as NRI calls the TS, CD, and CM). We’ll have a little more review on it this Monday before we have a small test on the topic Tuesday....