English 8 students continued working on their lit circles with the Frederick Douglass text. We'll finish tomorrow. English I Honors students began the act 4 acting project. We'll be planning more...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Test and Part 2 of Douglass
English I Honors students took the test on act 3 of Romeo and Juliet and phrases. English 8 students went over the subordinate clause homework (see below) before we went on to part 2 from the...
Subordinate Clauses, New Parallel Structure, and a Due Date
English 8 students took a brief look at subordinate clauses as we build skills to parse the difficult writing we're finding in Frederick Douglass's autobiography. Today was just general practice;...
Part 1 Complete and Project Work
English I Honors students had some time to work on their "Decoration Day"/Romeo and Juliet connection paragraphs. Students worked with a partner to make revisions based on the rubric, specifically...
Participles and Close Reading
Since we had the district-mandated second-quarter English benchmark test today, we only had half an hour per class. English 8 students continued with their close reading of an extremely tough text,...
3.5 and a Tough Text
Effective readers do a lot of things without even thinking about it. It's as if their brains are divided: half the brain engaged with reading; the other half is monitoring comprehension, connecting...
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.
