First and fourth periods worked on improving their sentence variety for the upcoming PASS test. We looked at a handout on various sentence types that we will be incorporating into our writing now....
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Wrapped Around Commonly Confused Words
First and fourth periods had an in-depth study of the song "Wrapped Around Your Finger." We broke into pairs to figure out the meaning of the song. Second and seventh periods reviewed homework and...
Story Lines, Allusions, Effective Readers’ Skills, and Mean Coworkers
Today in first and fourth periods we looked at the strange, non-linear story line of The Odyssey. Also we looked at the song "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police and began working on a close...
Unscaffolded Close Reading, Cornell Practice, and PASS Work
First and fourth periods completed a final step in scaffolded close reading by marking a text and working to answer an interpretive question without any assistance from anyone. We looked at the...
Double Do’s and Don’t’s
First and Fourth periods learned about cultural laws and do's and don't's before applying it to a text from the textbook about hospitality in ancient Greek culture and its role in the Odyssey....
Media and Puzzle Assembly
First and fourth periods finished up the cyclops scene, adding a new motif to examine as we read the Odyssey: the perfect hero. We began tracing the first element, verbal cleverness: Second and...
Homeric Similes and Jigsaw Reading
First and Fourth Periods had a short quiz on Odysseus's encounter with the Lotus Eaters and Polyphemus. They also worked on locating Homeric Similes. Second and seventh periods worked on jigsaw...
Calypso Redux and Main Idea/Text Structure Combo
First and fourth periods worked on Calypso again and comparing the song to the poem. We worked with partners to identify differences in the relationships and Calypso herself, looking Samuel Palmer's...
Calypso and Main Ideas
First and fourth periods worked on Homeric Similes and compared a Calypso song to her part in the Odyssey. We broke off into groups and analyzed the two pieces. Second and seventh periods worked on...
Odyssey and Text Structures
Today in first and fourth periods we started looking at the first part of Homer's Odyssey. We marked the text and looked at it bit by bit on our own and with partners before going over it as a...
Epic Text Structures and Cornell Notes
First and fourth periods looked at what epics, and a new method of note taking, the Cornell Method. We'll be returning to text structure and the Odyssey next week. Second and seventh periods had a...
Evaluation Phase Open
The evaluation phase for the final Romeo and Juliet project is now open. All students, whether you have submitted something or not, are to evaluate three students' work.
