Pali, Sanskrit, and pictures
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
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...
Finishing Up Characterization and Foreshadowing
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...
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...
