First period had another go at The Diary of Anne Frank today. We spent enough time going over the second scene as a class to illustrate fully that preparation for the project will be an absolute...
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First Reading, Rehearsal, and Cutting Lines
First period dove into the dramatized version of The Diary of Anne Frank. Using the EQ, "What are the textual elements specific to drama," we examined all the intricacies of dramatic texts -- the...
Rehearsal, the Double-Sided Journal, Project Sample
First period was introduced to the Double-Sided Journal. Using skills similar to those used in the students read through two more sections of Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. Second and sixth...
Preparing, Cross-Referencing, and Revision
First period worked on revision -- deep revision versus surface revision. Second and sixth periods had their first of two days preparation for their Diary of Anne Frank project. We'll be spending...
Think-Alouds, Project Planning, and the End of 3.1
First period continued practicing the effective readers' skills with Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (the actual diary). We did a Think-Aloud in pairs, debriefed, then continued by using the...
Project Overview, tableaux vivants, and writing
First period, having a choice for the day's writing workshop mini-lesson, decided to continue working on sentence variety Second and sixth periods had a quiz on last night's reading. We then went...
Acting and a Diary
It's that time of the year: all classes are doing drama in one way or another. First period began working on The Diary of Anne Frank. We read a few passages from the original diary and worked on...
Acting, Yelling, and the End of Act 2
There are few things as rewarding as writing the update on a Friday after a good week. We're all tired; we're all ready to go home; we've all earned a bit of rest. For now... First period switched...
One More Think-Aloud, Final Writing, and Horticulture
First period had a final day of the writing workshop, working on the STAR method of revision. Fourth period looked at Friar Laurence's opening lines to see how Shakespeare uses language tricks (also...
Think-Aloud, Fragments, and the Balcony
First period had a quick mini-lesson on sentence fragments -- recognizing and correcting them -- followed by some more writing. Now that the routine for a writing workshop has been established, we...
Think-Aloud, Sentence Variety, and the Most Famous Scene in the World
First period started a three-part mini-lesson series on various sentence structures we can use to provide variety in our writing. We covered the first two of six before continuing our writing....
Prompt Books, More Writing, and A Start to Anne Frank
Image via Wikipedia First period continued working on the writing project. We'll begin the first of several lessons on revision tomorrow. By the end of the week, we'll be working on joining...
