Students today continued working on characterization in Great Expectations.
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Testing 2021 Day 2: ELA Session 2
More testing today. We'll be having one more day of testing tomorrow as students work through the math portion of the SC-Ready test. In class, though, we took our 25 minutes together to view a bit...
Testing 2021 Day 1: ELA Session 1
Today students took the writing portion of the ELA SC-Ready test. It was a tiring test, but we persevered and made it through the questions, the TDA, the silence, the weird, posterboard-covered...
Testing
Yesterday and today online students came in for SC-Ready testing as in-person students worked at home. This is to remind you that in-person students will be testing Monday through Wednesday of next...
Active and Passive Voice
Today students began by going over the next sentence in our clause-identification practice we're doing for a starter. Afterward, we covered standard L-4.1b about active and passive voice. After...
Verb Mood Concluded
We began the day with an analysis of clauses in a given sentence, as we've done for the last few days now. This sentence was from Great Expectations, which is the final book we'll be exploring this...
Completing Mockingbird and Starting Mood
Today began with more phrase/clause work. This will become increasingly important as we dive into Great Expectations these final weeks. Afterward, we had the final batch of comprehension questions...
Completing the Novel
Today we completed, for all intents and purposes, To Kill a Mockingbird, with students solving the mystery they were working on Thursday and Friday last week: what really happened to Bob Ewell?...
The Mystery at the End
To Kill a Mockingbird ends with a bit of a mystery for eighth-grade students: what exactly happened to Bob Ewell? To solve this mystery, students worked through seven excerpts from the text in a...
TDA and Relaxation
The kids wrote another TDA today. I'll be giving them feedback over the next couple of weeks regarding this as we near the final, actual TDA portion of the state-mandated year-end testing. Since it...
Legal Advice
Today, students participated in what is always one of the highlights of the year: Mr. Jim Bannister of the Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey law firm discusses with students the Tom Robinson trial from...
The Tea Party Concluded
Students today finished working on the enigmatic twenty-fourth chapter of Mockingbird, which includes this passage that stumps all the kids every year: Mrs. Merriweather nodded wisely. Her voice...
