English I Honors students went through chapter 24 of TKMB. It's a confusing chapter that seems to be, as one student expressed it, the ultimate non-sequitur. We'll be spending a couple of days...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Applying and Analyzing
English I students completed the trial. English 8 students started the second and final week of figurative language/poetry. We put together all the steps to be able to answer a simple question: what...
Figurative Language and Tom Robinson
English I students worked on Tom Robinson's testimony in To Kill a Mockingbird. We've finished our close analysis of the trial and will return to it in a few weeks when a trial lawyer comes for a...
Interpreting Figurative Language and Mayella’s Testimony
English 8 students continued with the short unit on figurative language, reviewing today how to interpret figurative language. They picked up a few new terms: tenor and vehicle. English I Honors...
Sentence Types and Figurative Language
English I Honors students worked complex and compound-complex sentences. Complex Sentences We determined a few things: compound sentence = simple sentence + simple sentencecomplex sentence = simple...
Bob Ewell and Poetry
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...
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...
