English I students had another day to work on their final analytic paragraph. The plan for the day was most certainly not to spend an entire additional day working on it, but in the end, I decided...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Planning and Effective Readers
English 8 students went over their returned Schaffer paragraphs that dealt with "Thank You, Ma'am." I'd finished up grading them last week and we hadn't had a chance to go over them yet, so that's...
Planning and Reading
English 8 students worked on their new novel Nightjohn. We're using an "It Says/I Say"-type engagement as we read as we scaffold our critical reading skills to incorporate more critical thinking...
Book Fair, Final Planning, and New Unit
Book fair and close reading
Irony, Symbolism, and Literacy
A new unit and a new analysis
Unplanned Day of Writing
Unplanned and unexpected but necessary
Writing
Writing, writing, all around.
Trust and Schaffer
English 8 students began working in earnest on their first major writing project: an analytic Schaffer paragraph examining the question of how Roger changes over the course of the story "Thank You,...
Details and Analysis
English I went over "The Cask of Amontillado" today, making sure we had a good comprehension of the basics and discussing the homework from yesterday. English 8 students began their first major...
Quotes and Parsing
Tackling a tough text and integrating a quote
Media Center and Discussion
Media and matters
Perspective, Schaffer, and Integrating Quotes
Classes examine perspective and learn about integrating quotes
