English 8 students began a new unit, with a mystery EQ which students were to determine at the end of the day. English I Honors students had a quiz on To Kill a Mockingbird and used the time while...
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TDA and Decompression
All eighth graders took the Text Dependent Analysis portion of the district-mandated quarterly benchmark test today. As such, most students were fairly exhausted when they got to class, and since...
TDA and Chess
Today being reward day for the third quarter, all classes were shorter than usual. English I Honors students worked on Text Dependent Analysis questions in preparation for Monday's TDA benchmark....
Trial and Friday Work on Thursday
English 8 students did their Friday inference/make-up work today since we'll have a shortened day tomorrow due to reward day. English I students had their final day of trial analysis, and some...
Trial and Socratic Seminar
English 8 students had a Socratic Seminar about whether or not it's a good idea for people like Harriet Tubman, who had escaped slavery, to risk it all to go back to help others. We had a variety of...
Catch Up and Testimony
English 8 students had some time today to catch up. We didn't finish our discussion prep on Thursday, so we finished that up, and we had a chance to make up some other missing work and prepare for...
Friday Work and Socratic Seminar
English I Honors students had a Socratic Seminar about the minor characters we have encountered so far. Students arranged the characters in a moral hierarchy, then worked to argue their cause in a...
Reading Day and Discussion Prep
English I had a bit of a reading day and "here's where you stand for the year" grade check. English 8 students finished going over their Harriet Tubman annotation/lit circle projects. We'll be...
Project Work and Gerunds
English I students went over part three of our phrase-blitz, going through gerunds in less than a period. Easy-peasy, right? English 8 students continued with their Harriet Tubman...
Turn In, Participles, Test Review, and More
English 8 students went over the test we had a few days ago. We were able to review the items missed and prepare for the next assessment, which will be a vocab quiz tomorrow. English I Honors...
Prepositions and Friday Work
English I Honors students began the grammar portion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We'll be focusing on phrases: prepositional, participial, gerund, infinitive, and appositive. Today's focus was...
Wrapping Up Douglass and the First Discussion
English 8 students finished up the Frederick Douglass text, going over the work from yesterday before having one last session with the text: a series of questions that, had they not done the amazing...
