English 8 students had a test on Schaffer today. We'll start a new unit tomorrow. English I students began planning their second Schaffer paragraph, this time on Poe's story "The Cask of...
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Parsing Continued and Test Prep
English I students finished up going over the three tricks for parsing tricky passages: We looked a little more closely at the second method (looking for interrupters) in conjunction with the third...
Parsing and No Red Ink
English 8 students worked on No Red Ink practice with Schaffer paragraphs, determining the claim, evidence, and reasoning (as NRI calls the TS, CD, and CM). We'll have a little more review on it...
Second Story Cycle Planning and Schaffer Completion
English 8 students completed their second (and last, for the time being) Schaffer paragraph about how to have a successful school year. We'll be having a test on Schaffer and "Thank You, Ma'am" next...
Second Schaffer as Class and Socratic Seminar
English 8 students worked on another Schaffer paragraph, a final paragraph before we will have a final assessment on the unit. This time, students worked with very little help except the aid they...
Schaffer Completion, Library Visit, and Evaluations
All students went to the library today for the first day of checkout and in-library reading. English 8 students completed their first real Schaffer paragraphs. We competed our TS and CDs and joined...
First Schaffer Paragraph and First Workshop
English 8 students worked on their first Schaffer paragraphs, returning in time to that awful time of fifth grade when we had to deal with Covid and its effects on school. Our first paragraph dealt...
Schaffer Fun Friday
Everyone worked on Schaffer paragraphs today -- it was a Shaffer extravaganza. Schaffer-palooza. Schaffer-stock. English 8 students worked on re-ordering a scrambled Schaffer paragraph. English I...
Planning Schaffer and Learning Schaffer
English 8 students continued with their introduction to the Schaffer model. We looked at an example paragraph and broke it down into its constituent parts. We'll continue tomorrow with a scrambled...
Setting and Conflict in “Dangerous Game” and Schaffer Introduction
English 8 students began the second half of the first unit with an introduction to the Schaffer model body paragraph that we will be using all year. Since we began the day going over work we'd...
Integrating Quotes and Organization
English I students finished up their practice with integrating quotes. We did one session of practice as a class with the following quote, determining as a class what could be paraphrased/eliminated...
Integrating Quotes and Comprehension Questions
English I students finished up their work on initial Schaffer analytic work and then shifted our focus a little by working on integrating quotes for our concrete details. We began working on the...
