English I students continued preparing for a guest speaker, a trial lawyer who will help students see the trial in Mockingbird in a whole new way. Notes below. English 8 students continued with...
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Friday Work
We did some work on clauses again today in English I, then shifted to sentence types, covering simple and compound sentences. English 8 had an end-of-unit-get-everything-caught-up day. And lastly, a...
Lit Circles and Discussion Pairs
English 8 students worked on their final discussions for the Harriet Tubman piece we've been working on this week. Students turned in their annotated discussion texts, and we went to the book fair....
Lit Circles
Discussing To Kill a Mockingbird
Phrases and Tone
English 8 was a little on the empty side today: almost half the students were out for a field trip, so we did some more practice on IXL with those who remained. English I Honors students continued...
Clauses and Lit Circles
English 8 students are still finishing up their first round of lit circle work. We'll be debriefing tomorrow to make a plan for improving the next time we do it. English I Honors students debriefed...
Circles
All students are currently engaged in lit circles: English I Honors students are using them to work through To Kill a Mockingbird and English 8 students are using them to go through a brief text...
Final Day Squared
English I students looked at the final steps in our massive Romeo and Juliet project. We first looked at elements we need to include in the introduction and conclusion. Introduction should include:...
Transitions and ISL Closure
English 8 students finished up a couple of days working with voice, tone, diction, audience, and author's purpose -- they're all related, and IXL does a good job of combining them, so we spent some...
Example and Voice
English 8 students started the last bit of work on Douglass's autobiography, working to "determine the voice of a piece in order to make some inferences about the intended audience." English I...
Concluding Douglass (Almost) and More Project Work
English 8 students worked on the comprehension questions for the third part of the Frederick Douglass text that has been challenging us this quarter. English I Honors student had another day to...
Writing and Prep
English 8 students finished up a review of text structures and subordinate clauses. We'll be having a test on these topics later this week English I Honors students worked on their Romeo and...
