We continued working on Great Expectations today as we enter the final few chapters of the novel. Our focus today was a return to foreshadowing as we looked at how a careful reader, knowing...
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Characterization Presentations
Students today presented their findings on the various characters they analyzed over the last couple of days. While it was not part of the plan, most of the groups that went covered Estella and Miss...
Characterization 2
Students began working today on a more in-depth analysis of characters based on the discussions students had about characters yesterday and Monday. They'll be working on this again tomorrow before...
Characterization
Students today continued working on characterization in Great Expectations.
Testing 2021 Day 2: ELA Session 2
More testing today. We'll be having one more day of testing tomorrow as students work through the math portion of the SC-Ready test. In class, though, we took our 25 minutes together to view a bit...
Testing 2021 Day 1: ELA Session 1
Today students took the writing portion of the ELA SC-Ready test. It was a tiring test, but we persevered and made it through the questions, the TDA, the silence, the weird, posterboard-covered...
Testing
Yesterday and today online students came in for SC-Ready testing as in-person students worked at home. This is to remind you that in-person students will be testing Monday through Wednesday of next...
Active and Passive Voice
Today students began by going over the next sentence in our clause-identification practice we're doing for a starter. Afterward, we covered standard L-4.1b about active and passive voice. After...
Verb Mood Concluded
We began the day with an analysis of clauses in a given sentence, as we've done for the last few days now. This sentence was from Great Expectations, which is the final book we'll be exploring this...
Completing Mockingbird and Starting Mood
Today began with more phrase/clause work. This will become increasingly important as we dive into Great Expectations these final weeks. Afterward, we had the final batch of comprehension questions...
Completing the Novel
Today we completed, for all intents and purposes, To Kill a Mockingbird, with students solving the mystery they were working on Thursday and Friday last week: what really happened to Bob Ewell?...
The Mystery at the End
To Kill a Mockingbird ends with a bit of a mystery for eighth-grade students: what exactly happened to Bob Ewell? To solve this mystery, students worked through seven excerpts from the text in a...
