Here is a link to the various versions of 2.2 we viewed in class. It's lacking the Leo DiCaprio version, but I'm sure you'll find that easily enough on YouTube. Materials you need to turn in by...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Presentations and Prep
English 8 students continued working on their Seven Habits of Effective Teens as part of their quarterly STEAM project. Students are working on outlining as a means to create objective summaries. We...
A Note About Lesson Plans for the Week of 12/17
Due to the shortening of this week (two days out and a half day, during which many students were absent and thus were devoted to administrative tasks and makeup work) and the relatively shortened...
Project Starts and Balcony Finishes
English I Honors started the final work on the balcony scene, looking today at specific linguistic and literary elements: Are there any references to the motif we’ve been tracing? What is it? How...
Balcony Madness and Friday Work
English 8 worked on their regular inference work today after finishing up their paradigm outline practice. We'll be turning to The Seven Habits of Effective Teens on Monday to apply all these...
Balcony and Applied Outlines
English 8 students began applying their summarizing and outlining skills to a short chapter in The Seven Habits of Effective Teens. We'll be working on this through winter break. English I Honors...
Project Beginnings and Outline Work
English I Honors had an odd day since third period was not able to meet during the entire period without interruptions due to kids coming back from MAP testing. We watched a little of Romeo + Juliet...
Friday Work and Practice Test
English I Honors students worked on a practice test before the first Romeo and Juliet test Monday. A quick way to study: Re-read the whole act. You should be able to do this in half an hour. Review...
Outlining The Nurse and Juliet
All classes spent a little time on the article of the week. I provided students with some additional help in the form of a stems list to help students determine words from context. English I...
Outlining and Inferred Blocking
All classes began with more in-depth practice with the Article of the Week assignment. English I Honors students began applying what we learned yesterday about implied blocking included in Romeo and...
Scene 5 and Summarizing
English 8 students began working on an extended exercise with standard RI-6.1: "Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their...
Habits and Mab Close Read
English 8 students continued an anticipation activity designed to prepare students for our new unit, which will focus on Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. We used a graphic...
