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...
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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...
Bad Habits and Queen Mab
English 8 students began their new unit, which will be a non-fiction unit on The Seven Habits of Highly-Effective Teens. We began today with a Pear Deck session on bad habits some teens might have:...
Blocking and Tone
English 8 students almost finished up tone with "The Tell-Tale Heart," identifying passages that serve as evidence for our established tone of frantic paranoia. We'll finish up tomorrow. English I...
Blocking and Tone
English 8 students worked on tone with "The Tell-Tale Heart." Today we determined the tone; tomorrow, we'll be looking at the story for textual evidence to back up our assertions about the tone....
Shaky Start and Friday Work
In English I, we began Shakespeare proper (1.1.1-30) and discovered that it begins with a little surprise, not entirely pleasant -- a good lesson in the unpredictability of Shakespeare. English 8...
