English 8 students began a hopefully-weekly bit of practice planning and thinking through Anne-Frank-related TDAs in preparation for the actual state-administered TDA next month. Local attorney Jim...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Analyzing Dialogue and Subordinate Review
English 8 students worked today on analyzing dialogue to determine a number of things: First: Second: Third: We also created a timeline of the play thus far: English I students went over subordinate...
Reading Day
A big, long list
ELA Benchmark Test 3, Project Turn-in, and New Reading Skill
Testing, testing, and still more testing
First Diary Entry with Effective Readers’ Skills and Subordinate Clauses
Grammar and effective readers
Independent Clauses and Empathy
English 8 students began a new unit today on the Diary of Anne Frank, our final major reading selection for the year. We began with an anticipation lesson designed to get students empathetic to Anne...
Connective Tissue and Inferrences
English I students today went over how to connect songs in the Romeo and Juliet project. We made a brief summary of each of my example paragraphs to begin with: We then determined which paragraphs...
Final Test Prep and Project Work
Research and figurative passive
Romeo’s Final Speech and Research
English 8 students worked on their second of three days of research for their argumentative writing project. When we come back Tuesday, we'll have one final day of reading/research. English I Honors...
Writing the Paper, Reviewing Elliptical Construction, and Starting the Argument
English I students went over a quick review of elliptical construction in 3.5 and compared it to the first example we saw in 1.4 (the Mab speech). We noted two things: There is always a pattern in...
Figurative Language and the End of Act 3
English 8 students finished up a week-and-a-half reading of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, looking especially at King's use of figurative language: Working together we saw that...
Projects and Ink
English I students began the Romeo and Juliet project in earnest, looking at how the song "Decoration Day" has similarities to the action of 3.1 in the play. The link for the English I class...
