English Studies students (fifth period) began chapter five in Nightjohn, and we began slowly transitioning our effective reader skills/"It Says, I Say" work to its intended end: small discussion...
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Just the Homework
As Sgt. Joe Friday might say if he were a teacher on a Friday afternoon, "Just the homework, ma'am. Just the homework."
Context Clues, Final Story Planning, and Self-Assessment
English Strategies (fourth period) finished up working on a text about traditions slaves brought with them from Africa and using context clues in the text to determine what words mean. It was slower...
Pair Application, Finishing Four, and Final Story
English Strategies students (fourth period) applied the skills they worked on during Monday's and Tuesday's classes with a partner to a new selection, an informational text about slaves and...
Effective Readers, Context Clues, and Irony
English I Honors students began their final set of stories for the short story/writing about literature unit. We'll be finishing the unit up this week and moving on to poetry. English Strategies...
Effective Readers, Planning, and Context Clues
English Studies began working on chapter four of Nightjohn, using effective readers' skills to interact with the text. We'll finish up tomorrow and write our latest journal entry. English Strategies...
Moodle, Narrators, and Context Clues
English Strategies students (fourth period) had an administrative day: getting passwords for various sites squared away and saved, learning about a new site (Moodle), and doing weekly...
Context Clues, Magical Realism, and Meeting Nightjohn
English Studies continued with yesterday's work on using context clues to determine a word's meaning. We have four rules from yesterday that they began applying today: Look for synonyms/definitions...
Themes, Context, and a Socratic Seminar
English Strategies students had a fantastic day today, working in groups to determine themes in chapter two of Nightjohn. We ended the day with a solid Class Dojo percentage, which confirmed what I...
Socratic Discussion, Mini-Project Divided Work, and A Crazy Story
English Strategies had divided work today with some students beginning a group project that will continue through Nightjohn and others working on individual work. English Studies (fifth period)...
Meeting Nightjohn and Planning
English Strategies worked on some re-teaching practice to fix some issues that arose from last week's work. English Studies moved on to the third chapter and the accompanying journal assignment...
Friday Shortcuts
Rather than rehash the day (it's Friday and we're all tired), let's just get to the homework...
