English 8 worked on the argument in Nightjohn. John makes a claim and backs it up with evidence to which Mammy makes a counterclaim. John then makes a rebuttal. Students worked groups to tease this...
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Connotation and Inference
English I Honors students finished up their look at "Those Winter Sundays," examining the poet's use of connotation. English 8 did their first-quarter inference work.
Poetry Compared and Argument
English 8 students looked at a text about African traditions that slaves brought with them to America. We will finish tracing the argument tomorrow, then apply it to Nightjohn. English I Honors...
Poetry and Traditions
English 8 students continued with the second part of yesterday's lesson by applying what we'd learned to a text about how slaves retained many of their traditions while still enslaved. We'll be...
Argument Review and Final TS Day
English I Honors students took a final day to get the topic sentences and outlines for their final analytic short story paragraphs all lined up and ready to go. We worked collaboratively on making...
Socratic Seminars for All
All classes had Socratic Seminars today. English I Honors students worked on the second half of the two-part discussion of "The Necklace" (yesterday) and "The Gift of the Magi" (today). English 8...
Socratic Discussion and Motifs
English 8 students bean working on motifs, looking for three motifs in Nightjohn: power money freedom Motifs will be useful later when we start trying to determine a theme of the novel. English I...
Topic Sentences and Participles
English I Honors worked on tightening their topic sentences again. It's not what I originally planned on doing, but seeing the need, I tried to remedy it somewhat today. English 8 students hit one...
Chapter 3 and the Final Analysis
English 8 students went through chapter 3 from Nightjohn after their article of the week work. We practiced retelling, doing individual retellings and a group retelling before we had our daily...
Friday Work and Logical Friday
English 8 students did they're typical Friday inference work. English I Honors students, after four weeks of heavy lifting, took something of a break once their latest writing assignment was...
Voice and Assessing
English I Honors examined some sample paragraphs that I wrote about "The Cask of Amontillado" and evaluated them based on the project rubric. Once we debriefed as a class, students paired up again...
Voice and the Second Schaffer Paragraph
All classes began with some work on the article of the week, either this week's or last week's. English 8 focused on this week's. English I Honors focused on last week's, briefly going over the...
