A beginning and an ending this August day.
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
AOW, Questioning, and Summary vs. Analysis
All students today began going over the very first article of the week. We'll be working on various AOWs throughout the year as our bell ringer. English 8 Students in English 8 added the last of the...
Connecting, Monitoring, Fixing, and Writing
English 8 Students in English 8 continued with our review of Effective Readers' Skills, reading "Thank You, Ma'am" and applying the skills. English I English I students completed their group-work...
Schaffer Planning, Commenting, and Predicting
English 8 English 8 students worked on effective readers' skills today, focusing on: commenting and predicting. We returned to "Thank You, Ma'am" to begin applying effective readers' skills: English...
Second Day 2021
Students in English I today dove into the topic we covered only in overview form yesterday: the Schaffer body paragraph. We looked at some student examples from last year and evaluated the topic...
The End 2021
End of year blues and joy.
Eighth-Grade Day 2021
End-of-the-year party!
Last Full Day 2021
Pali, Sanskrit, and pictures
Ballads and Yearbooks
Ballads, yearbooks, and shoelaces.
Fan Fiction
What else are we going to do with a bunch of newly-created Dickens fans?
Presentations and Diagrams
We did a little more diagramming today -- I intended on giving kids a reading day, but they were so thrilled to be learning how to analyze sentences to the granularity diagramming requires that we...
Diagramming Take 1
As our last group of starters, we began some sentence diagramming today. Most classes spent about 15 minutes on it before moving to Great Expectations character presentations. In school I always...
