Many students were out for field trips and such during English 8, so students worked on allusions on IXL instead of moving ahead without the rest of the class. English I Honors students finished the...
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Evaluations, Presentations, and Part 3
English I Honors students first began by looking at the feedback from teachers and peers about their "Decoration Day" assignment. Here are a few examples discussed in class regarding assuming what...
4.2 and Finishing Douglass Text 2
English 8 students went over the second part of the text about Frederick Douglass. We went over the required annotations and the paraphrasing students worked on in class. English I students covered...
Performance and Discussion
English 8 students had the second half of their Socratic seminars today after the SSR that we've begun each class with this week. English I Honors students had a final half day of preparation for...
Acting Project and Lit Circles
English 8 students continued working on their lit circles with the Frederick Douglass text. We'll finish tomorrow. English I Honors students began the act 4 acting project. We'll be planning more...
Test and Part 2 of Douglass
English I Honors students took the test on act 3 of Romeo and Juliet and phrases. English 8 students went over the subordinate clause homework (see below) before we went on to part 2 from the...
Subordinate Clauses, New Parallel Structure, and a Due Date
English 8 students took a brief look at subordinate clauses as we build skills to parse the difficult writing we're finding in Frederick Douglass's autobiography. Today was just general practice;...
Part 1 Complete and Project Work
English I Honors students had some time to work on their "Decoration Day"/Romeo and Juliet connection paragraphs. Students worked with a partner to make revisions based on the rubric, specifically...
Participles and Close Reading
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter English benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. English 8 students continued with their close reading of an extremely tough text,...
3.5 and a Tough Text
Effective readers do a lot of things without even thinking about it. It's as if their brains are divided: half the brain engaged with reading; the other half is monitoring comprehension, connecting...
Science Benchmark and Quick Work
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter science benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. In English I Honors we went over prepositional phrases to solve any...
Antecedents and a Timeline
English 8 students began working on a new STEAM unit, starting with some grammar review. We looked at the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents. We did a fair amount of practice today;...
