English I students continued working on poetry: today we finished up "Those Winter Sundays" to examine the enormous role connotations play in the poem. English 8 students finished up a brief...
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Poetry and Point of View
English 8 students went through the first entry in the fictional progress reports of Flowers for Algernon. We made some inferences about the narrator, about the additional characters, and about the...
Cornell Notes
English I students began a new, short unit on poetry. We're looking at the poem "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry" in order to get some initial guidance on how to parse...
AOW Debrief
English I Honors students debriefed their first Article of the Week assignment, which I handed back today. We went over the three required annotations I checked. We basically covered appositives,...
Socratic Seminar and Planning
English 8 students had their first Socratic Seminar to discuss the statements we wrote about yesterday during our anticipatory session for our new unit. Sometimes, it's better to remain ignorant...
Topic Sentence and Anticipation Guide
English 8 students went over the anticipation guide for their new unit which will cover determining the main idea, summarizing, determining the theme, and examining point of view. We will be...
Test and Schaffer Planning
English 8 students had a test on Schaffer today. We'll start a new unit tomorrow. English I students began planning their second Schaffer paragraph, this time on Poe's story "The Cask of...
Parsing Continued and Test Prep
English I students finished up going over the three tricks for parsing tricky passages: We looked a little more closely at the second method (looking for interrupters) in conjunction with the third...
Parsing and No Red Ink
English 8 students worked on No Red Ink practice with Schaffer paragraphs, determining the claim, evidence, and reasoning (as NRI calls the TS, CD, and CM). We'll have a little more review on it...
Second Story Cycle Planning and Schaffer Completion
English 8 students completed their second (and last, for the time being) Schaffer paragraph about how to have a successful school year. We'll be having a test on Schaffer and "Thank You, Ma'am" next...
Second Schaffer as Class and Socratic Seminar
English 8 students worked on another Schaffer paragraph, a final paragraph before we will have a final assessment on the unit. This time, students worked with very little help except the aid they...
Schaffer Completion, Library Visit, and Evaluations
All students went to the library today for the first day of checkout and in-library reading. English 8 students completed their first real Schaffer paragraphs. We competed our TS and CDs and joined...
