English 8 English 8 students worked on effective readers' skills today, focusing on: commenting and predicting. We returned to "Thank You, Ma'am" to begin applying effective readers' skills: English...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Second Day 2021
Students in English I today dove into the topic we covered only in overview form yesterday: the Schaffer body paragraph. We looked at some student examples from last year and evaluated the topic...
The End 2021
End of year blues and joy.
Eighth-Grade Day 2021
End-of-the-year party!
Last Full Day 2021
Pali, Sanskrit, and pictures
Ballads and Yearbooks
Ballads, yearbooks, and shoelaces.
Fan Fiction
What else are we going to do with a bunch of newly-created Dickens fans?
Presentations and Diagrams
We did a little more diagramming today -- I intended on giving kids a reading day, but they were so thrilled to be learning how to analyze sentences to the granularity diagramming requires that we...
Diagramming Take 1
As our last group of starters, we began some sentence diagramming today. Most classes spent about 15 minutes on it before moving to Great Expectations character presentations. In school I always...
Finishing Up Characterization and Foreshadowing
We continued working on Great Expectations today as we enter the final few chapters of the novel. Our focus today was a return to foreshadowing as we looked at how a careful reader, knowing...
Characterization Presentations
Students today presented their findings on the various characters they analyzed over the last couple of days. While it was not part of the plan, most of the groups that went covered Estella and Miss...
Characterization 2
Students began working today on a more in-depth analysis of characters based on the discussions students had about characters yesterday and Monday. They'll be working on this again tomorrow before...
