All classes worked on Socratic Seminars today. For second and seventh periods, it was their first time. We went over the rules and then had a seminar on an easy topic to help students get accustomed...
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Mysterious Deaths and Jim Crow
First and fourth periods discussed their first encounters with racism, then they divided into groups and read an informational text about Jim Crow Laws. We tried a new type of marking the text...
Project Overview and Argument Introduction
Second and seventh periods began formal work on this quarter's main writing standard: the argument. Unbeknownst to them, they've been doing argumentative writing the whole quarter under a different...
Remember Examples
Remember English I students: if you get a 100 on your paragraph, copy and paste it into the Examples forum.
Irony, Symbolism, and a Final Day of Writing
First and fourth periods had a quiz on "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Necklace". We then divided into partners and decide if we wanted to plan about "The Gift of the Magi" of "The Necklace." Second...
Irony and Literary Argument
First and fourth periods looked at verbal, situational, and dramatic irony. We also looked at the story of "Peter and Rosa." We got into groups of three and four and worked to get two examples of...
Point of View and More Inferring
Today in first and fourth periods we worked on using brackets and ellipses in quotes. Also we started a Shaffer Model paragraph based on "The Cask of Amontillado". Second and seventh periods began...
Point of View and Effective Readers
Today first and fourth periods did a Socratic Seminar on "The Cask of Amontillado" discussing if the story had to be in first person and if the narrator can be trusted. Notes from the discussion...
Point of View and More Effective Readers’ Skills
First and fourth periods began looking at the question of point of view and reliable/unreliable narrators. We read "In the Family" as our initial model text and we'll be applying what we discovered...
Note about Grading for English I Students
If you're looking at your grades for the character analysis from "Thank You, Ma'am" and thinking, "Wow, that's a really low grade," please understand that the grade shown on the Moodle site will not...
Effective Readers and Socratic Seminars
Second and seventh periods began looking at some knew reading engagements that we'll be using throughout the year. These are "Think Alouds" and "Say Something." To introduce and begin practicing...
Characterization and New Beginnings
Today in class first and fourth periods worked on identifying direct and indirect characterization. We pulled examples from "The Old Man at the Bridge" and analyzed them to see if the author used...
