English 8 Strategies students continued with their narratives. We should be completely done with the preparatory work by tomorrow, though many students are already done. We'll spend next week...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Full Return
With English I Honors students having their End of Course Exam behind them now (what a relief for them, I know), we returned to business as usual. Fourth period students finished a round-up of all...
Reorientation
Today was a day of catching up and getting our feet under us. English 8 Strategies students continued with the STEAM unit we've begun, creating a narrative. Students worked on their projects,...
Break
English 8 Strategies students today continued with the model story "Tears of Autumn" as we begin our final unit, a STEAM unit in which all teachers will be working together on a theme of immigration...
Back to Normal
First and fifth periods (English 8 Strategies) began looking at "Tears of Autumn" as part of a slow move into the STEAM unit we'll be concluding the year with on the eighth-grade hall. Fourth period...
ACT-Aspire Testing 2015, Day 1
Today students completed the English and writing tests. It was a long morning, but we made it through just fine.
Pre-Test Jitters
All classes spent the day preparing for tomorrow's ACT-Aspire writing test. In addition, English I Honors students took some time to look at the reading test we will be having on Wednesday.
Seminars and Commas
Fourth period English I Honors students continued with the third writing assignment for the Lord of the Flies unit with part two of a Socratic Seminar. Yesterday's discussion is available here....
Novel Work and Commas
English 8 Strategies students completed their short collaborative learning exercise on commas. We'll have some practice tomorrow. English I Honors students continued working on their respective...
Back to Business and a Comma Review
English 8 Strategies classes began a short review of commas, sure to be a major element on next week's ACT-Aspire test. We'll continue tomorrow: it's taking some time because we're using...
More Peer Editing
All classes worked on peer editing, looking at Friday's practice tests. We've got a week to go -- everyone's getting excited. (No, really!)
Second Practice Writing Test
All students took the second practice writing test for the ACT-Aspire, which will be on Tuesday 28 April. On Monday, we will be assessing them again as we did last week, then doing some more...
