We began today going over the AOW that I handed back today. We looked specifically at the following words: concede redolent fraught exclave utopic In addition, we went over a little geography to...
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Socratic Seminar about Characters
Today we finished what we began yesterday by holding a Socratic seminar about the question of which minor character in Mockingbird is the most moral. [gallery...
Presentations
Today, we began the presentations prepared yesterday. We didn't quite finish, so we'll work on that Monday. Tomorrow is online...
Discussion Preparation
Students today began working on presentations for tomorrow about one of three questions. Calpurnia and the First Purchase African M.E. Church What is Calpurnia’s purpose in the novel? In order to...
2 Discussions from the Book
Students today looked at two discussion questions that they worked on as a group before responding to other groups' ideas. We'll be expanding this to a group presentation and whole-class discussion...
Clauses
Today, after the phrase quiz, we worked on using phrases and clauses together to break sentences down into constituent parts. If the sentence is the base unit, then the next smallest unit would be...
Scout’s Reliability
Today we did a little new work with the article of the week: students shared with each other in their groups about the context clues they found for the word "fraught" in the article. Afterward,...
Long Sentences and Point of View
Today we worked on how to parse some of Lee's longer sentences in the novel. They'll tend to fade away as we read, but at the moment, we've got to work through some pretty complicated sentences. We...
Starting Mockingbird
Today, we began looking at To Kill a Mockingbird in earnest. We looked at the opening pages to determine how the author developed a Southern voice. Remember first that voice comes from Diction (word...
Formal and Informal Voice
Today we talked about formal and informal voice, which is an element on our rubric for the Romeo and Juliet project that we're finishing up. We went over seven guidelines: Avoid using colloquial...
Transition Paragraphs
Today we began making the transition from having six rather disjointed paragraphs that have no connection to one another to having one coherent paper. In other words, we worked on transition...
Gerunds and the Project
Students today went over gerunds and gerund phrases. We're continuing to work on verbals and verbal phrases, and we will continue with them until the end of the week. Afterward, we worked on our...
