English 8 students began their new unit on Nightjohn. We began building background knowledge today so that we can make better sense of the book as we begin. English I Honors students had their first...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
New POV and a New View of Literacy
English I Honors students began working on their newest literary criticism effort, this time dealing with the effect of point of view on the narrative structure. We began by exploring the truism...
Friday Overview
English I Honors students were working on their "Dangerous Game" paragraphs today. English 8 students had their first taste of Friday inference work. And journalism students continued their first...
Socratic Seminar, First Paragraph, and Assessments
English 8 students had their first Socratic Seminar today. It was, given the fact that it's the first time we did it, a splendid success. English I Honors students began planning their first...
First Paragraph, Final Reading, and Finished Paragraphs
English I Honors students began planning their first analytic paragraph using the Schaffer model. We'll be working on it further tomorrow. For now, the notes for anyone who needs them are below....
Group Practice, a New Unit, and the Inverted Pyramid
English 8 students worked on applying the effective readers' skills in groups using "Thank You, Ma'am" as the example text. We'll continue working on it tomorrow. English I Honors students began the...
Analysis and Effective Readers
English I Honors students began looking at the difference between summarizing and analyzing by looking at a poem by Li-Young Lee called "The Gift" and examining example summaries and analyses of the...
First Friday
We survived our first week -- a short week to be sure, but we survived it nonetheless. English I Honors students had some more time with their parts of speech project after going over the Schaffer...
Finishing Up and Schaffer Planning
English 8 students worked on their article of the week assignment, learning a bit more about how to annotate the text. They also had a chance to work on Moodle again, learning their way around the...
Schaffer and Tools
English 8 students did a little more group practice with the Article of the Week and how we annotate it. Afterward, students began exploring Moodle, the course management software we'll be using....
First Day 2017
We sailed through the first day without any issues in English class. All students went over the Article of the Week assignment, which is 10% of English I Honors students' grade and 15% of English 8...
End of the School Year 2016/17
It is over. Enjoy your well-deserved break.
