English I Honors students went over last night's homework of five sentences to analyze. We'll be applying this in a more general manner next week. English 8 students continued working on their Anne...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Field Test and Lit Groups
English I Honors had the EOC field test today. We'll be having a quiz on chapters 21-30 tomorrow, so students need to make sure they're ready for that. The actual EOC is not until Friday 19 May....
Reading Day and Lit Circles
English 8 students continued with their lit circles for The Diary of Anne Frank. All students should now be done with act one scene two and all the accompanying work. English I Honors students went...
Sentence Types and Lit Circles
After going over the extensive phrase homework, which has excited students so much that it is with the greatest regret that they realize we could have done sentence diagramming proper this year,...
Lit Circles and Clauses
English I students continued working with sentence analysis in Great Expectations. English 8 students continued with the lit circles for The Diary of Anne Frank.
Final Lit Circles and Skimming
English 8 students worked on The Diary of Anne Frank, evolving our reading into a lit circle format, which will take us through the end of the year. English I Honors students heard positively...
Sentence Analysis and Summarizing
English 8 students began a cross-curricular bit of work (working with Ms. George, the writing teacher) on creating objective summaries. English I students continued with the phrase work we've been...
ELA Testing Done for 2017
We're done with all ELA testing -- except for the EOC for E1 students. But that's a few weeks off...
First Step Done and Motifs
English I Honors students learned what a motif is and used a simple graphic organizer to begin tracking nine motifs in Great Expectations. English 8 students finished up act one, scene one of The...
Phrases and a Play
English I finished up the overview of the five major types of phrases. We'll be using these to analyze sentences from Great Expectations. English 8 students continued with the first scene of The...
Starting Drama and Phrases
English I Honors students began working on phrases as part of the final push through Great Expectations. We'll be using it our new knowledge to analyze sentences for meaning more effectively....
Concluding
English I Honors had their last reading day today as students waited for the majority of the class to come back from the field trip. We'll pick up Monday with normal programming. English 8 students...
