English 8 Strategies corrected yesterday's quiz and took care of some administrative matters. Fourth period English I Honors began a jig saw activity about phrases, the unit that always accompanies...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Writing, a Beginning, and an End
For the first time in some weeks, fourth and sixth periods -- both English I Honors classes -- are working on the same material, but fourth period is at the beginning of Lord of the Flies while...
Argument Correction and Project Work
Both periods of English I Honors worked on their respective cumulative projects, with fourth period taking a final day to complete their group planning. Fourth period students also need to take into...
Writing and Project Work
Every class was working on some sort of project or other. Four period English I Honors worked on their Mockingbird project, which is in fact six different options students chose from. Sixth period...
Run-Ons and the End of Two Units — Almost
First period had a final day of fragment/run-on practice before next week's quiz, the same as fifth period yesterday. Fourth period English I Honors students began their project for the unit on To...
Writing, Planning, and Being Detectives
Fourth period English I Honors students are nearing the conclusion of the To Kill a Mockingbird unit. We will begin working on the culminating project shortly. Today, students analyzed the...
Temptation, Mrunas, and Argument Consolidation
English 8 Strategies students, having completed five Mondays of argument analysis, spent the first part of the class consolidating their work into a graphic organizer as we begin to use the work for...
Writing, 24, and the Pig’s Head
English I Honors students in fourth period began a close examination of chapter twenty-four, a chapter that initially seems to have very little action but in fact is one of the most fascinating and...
A Model, Tension, and Authority
English I Honors students in fourth period returned to the passages from Mockingbird that we were working on yesterday to begin establishing, with the help of an informational text, how Harper Lee...
Fragments, Run-Ons, Movies, and Phrases
English I Honors sixth period students completed their jigsaw work on phrases, with all students how having a working knowledge of gerunds, participles, infinities, appositives, and prepositional...
Writing, Socratic Seminar, and Jig Saw Prep
English 8 Strategies students worked on their regular Tuesday writing schedule. We're still working on our argumentative writing. Today, students were to complete the second of their three first...
Final Argument, Moral Ranking, and Milgram
English 8 Strategies began working on the fifth and final argument example in their project concerning when kids become adults. We used a modified version of this New York Times article and examined...
