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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Science Benchmark and Quick Work
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter science benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. In English I Honors we went over prepositional phrases to solve any...
Antecedents and a Timeline
English 8 students began working on a new STEAM unit, starting with some grammar review. We looked at the relationship between pronouns and their antecedents. We did a fair amount of practice today;...
Gallery Interpretation and Text Structures
English I Honors used a gallery-walk format to explore seven passages from Romeo and Juliet, act 3, scenes 2 and 3. English 8 students applied...
Peer Assessment and Peer Teaching
English 8 students took the time to meet the new students who joined the class. After that, the students, in groups, gave the new students an overview of what we've been doing for the last few days,...
Benchmark and Schaffer
All students took the Q2 math benchmark test today, which meant we were on a two-hour-delay schedule and each class had only thirty minutes. English 8 students had a chance to complete test...
Q2 Vocabulary Test and 3.1
All classes took the quarter 2 vocabulary test (from the articles of the week). Afterward, English I Honors students went through RJ 3.1 for the first time.
A Test and Text Structures
English 8 students finished the overview of text structures today, going over cause/effect and problem/solution today. We saw that these two structures can be very similar and in fact can lead one...
Test Review and Text Structures
English I Honors students went over Romeo and Juliet act 2 and the linguistic elements we've been examining with that act: inverted sentences elliptical constructions parallel structure We'll be...
Viewing
English I students finished their look at act 2 by going through four scenes at one shot by viewing a performance of the scenes without the text in front of them. Afterward, we went over some basic...
Concluding Parallelism and More Summarizing
English I students began with work on this week's article, as usual: English I Honors AOW notes We concluded their work with parallel structure (parallelism), inverted sentences, and elliptical...
Parallel Structure and Summarizing
English I Honors went over parallel structure (also known as parallelism or parallel construction) and then looked at a few examples from Romeo and Juliet: Afterward, we applied it and other...
