English 8 students worked on completing their Schaffer discussion from last week after going over the graded effective readers' skills work from last week. Of course they started with the article of...
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Friday Inference Work and Schaffer Planning
English I Honors completed the Socratic Seminar for "In the Family" as the introduction to the Socratic Seminar format. Afterward, we did a quite Schaffer planning session. English 8 students worked...
Socratic Seminars
Both English I students and English 8 students conducted Socratic Seminars today. English I students discussed the short story "In the Family," which is the next story in our short story/writing...
Point of View and Finishing Effective Reader Skills
English I Honors students continued working on the short story/analysis unit, moving on to the second group of stories for our next paragraph, which will have to do with point of view. We worked on...
Paragraph Turn In and First Library Trip
English I Honors students turned in their first Schaffer paragraphs today. Together we went through how they'll be anonymously providing others with feedback. I modeled the process by accessing an...
First True Friday
Last week's Friday didn't count -- we didn't do Friday things in English 8. Today, we did: we began working on our traditional Friday work, which includes working on inferences with a text and a bit...
First Solo Paragraphs and Effective Reading Skills
Of course, we began with our article of the week work. English 8 began Nightjohn by applying effective readers' skills to given passages. We'll continue that tomorrow. English I Honors students...
First Full Schaffer and Unit Beginning
English I Honors students began with a review of the homework, which involved integrating quotes into one's own text. They also created their first full (well, almost full) analytic Schaffer...
Quote Integration and Unit Conclusion
English 8 students concluding the introductory ROCK unit by looking at how kindness can appear in the classroom. We're done with the bookkeeping stuff; now it's time to get serious. English I Honors...
Initial Analysis Start and Re-tellings
English I students finished up their analysis of the idea of analysis today. We ended with a simple definition of analysis: the examination of the elements or structures of a piece of writing. We...
Schaffer Closure, Analysis, and a Socratic Seminar
English 8 students are working their way through the year-opening ROCK unit, looking at kindness. Today we stepped out of the lesson plans because everything we going more quickly than expected, and...
Schaffer and Readers’ Skills
English I Honors, after working on the article of the week, finished up the basics of the Schaffer model. We first filled in some blanks regarding numbers of elements and specific transitional...
