All students began working on their No Red Ink work that will continue throughout the rest of the year. Details in the homework section above.
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Connotation and Fragments
Fragments, diction, and connotation in prose and poetry
Poetry Steps and Close Reading
English I Honors students finished up their examination of "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry," discovering that everything literally points back to the snow and drizzle of...
Beginning Poetry, Continuing Voice
Picture day and other fun
Writing and Voice
English I students had another day to work on their final analytic paragraph. The plan for the day was most certainly not to spend an entire additional day working on it, but in the end, I decided...
Planning and Effective Readers
English 8 students went over their returned Schaffer paragraphs that dealt with "Thank You, Ma'am." I'd finished up grading them last week and we hadn't had a chance to go over them yet, so that's...
Planning and Reading
English 8 students worked on their new novel Nightjohn. We're using an "It Says/I Say"-type engagement as we read as we scaffold our critical reading skills to incorporate more critical thinking...
Book Fair, Final Planning, and New Unit
Book fair and close reading
Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy
A new unit and a new analysis
Unplanned Day of Writing
Unplanned and unexpected but necessary
Writing
Writing, writing, all around.
Trust and Schaffer
English 8 students began working in earnest on their first major writing project: an analytic Schaffer paragraph examining the question of how Roger changes over the course of the story "Thank You,...
