After going over our diagramming homework (look at that beast below), we worked on test review for tomorrow. English 8 students worked on review for their own test tomorrow.
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Clause Review via Sentence Type and
English I Honors students began a review for the test on Wednesday by going over sentence types in small groups. Students are working to be able to differentiate between four sentence types: Simple...
Friday Inference Work and Clauses Overview
English I Honors students finished up clauses and did some review work for the test next week. We also added gerund and infinitive phrases to our sentence diagramming repertoire. Students were...
Connotation and Noun Clauses
English 8 students finished working with connotation in Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays." Sixth period didn't quite finish as much as fifth period due to a fire drill, so we'll have to catch...
Adverb Clauses and Winter Sundays
English I Honors students worked on diagramming (just a bit) and adverb clauses (just a bit as well): English 8 students began a little final work on poetry, looking at the importance of connotation...
Clauses and Practice with Individual Assessment
English 8 students worked on figurative language practice. We did some online practice while I sat with each student individually to assess students' general ability to interpret figurative language...
Diagramming and Inference Work
English I Honors students squeezed in a little experiment as we work through a grammar unit at the end of the semester: sentence diagramming! English 8 students worked on Friday inferring. We're...
Poetry Analysis and Active/Passive
English 8 students began moving toward the end of our poetry/figurative language unit by working in groups to do what we've been doing as a whole class: analyze and explain a poem, including all the...
Tone in Poetry and Verb Mood
English 8 students returned to tone in poetry today, using the figurative language we'd discovered and analyzed in the poem "The Black Earth" we'd been working on for the last few days. We'll be...
Poetry and Verbs
English I students began a three-week grammar unit in which the goal is simple: reach a point that students can describe the function of each and every word in a given sentence. To that end, we...
Friday Inference Work and Phrase Practice
A typical Friday with inference work for some and grammar practice for others.
Work and Junior Book Award Nominees
A rare day in which all classes in some way or another converge.
