English 8 students assessed some others’ work (anonymously, of course) from last week when we were working on quote integrating and making flow quotes: English I students worked on 1.2 from Romeo and Juliet. We looked at some of Capulet’s lines and saw how...
English 8 students continued working on embedding quotes more effectively, creating essentially flow quotes instead of simple dialogue quotes. English I students continued working with 1.1, making it through the prince’s speech: Rebellious subjects, enemies to...
Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so...
English 8 students worked on their flow quotes a little more today. This round of practice will be significantly more challenging: not only do I not supply the quotes but also I don’t supply the claim. (English I students: how would be the best way to revise...
Today, two worlds converged: Tech-Free Tuesday and library day. So all kids went to the library today to get a new book, and all kids worked without Chromebooks — teachers, too, as much as possible. English 8 students finished up “Inside Out” after...
English I students began the day with more work on parallel structure, a topic we’ve been covering mainly through No Red Ink practice. worked on the prologue to Romeo and Juliet. We’ve marked it for a few things: Unknown words Pronouns and antecedents...
English I students, before playing a final round of the Odyssey game, worked on a review of the material they have been studying independently in No Red Ink: parallel structure. One of the most challenging topics to master, parallel structure is something we usually...
English 8 students are working on improving their quote integration as they read selections from The Circuit. Today, I showed them how to embed their quotes more elegantly than simply saying, “the text says…” We’ll be practicing it for the rest...
English 8 students began a new unit on informational texts. We’ll be working on it through the end of the semester in three short weeks. English I students had the final game of Odyssey game preparation: HomeworkEnglish 8: work on No Red Ink as needed....
English 8 students went through a Gimkit practice session before tomorrow’s test on text structures. English I students worked on their projects for the Odyssey. Header image is an AI creation from the prompt: “a group of middle school students working on...
We’re still working on text structures in English 8. We took the final formative assessment for the district-required goal-setting assignment, which I also tied into the district-required Common Formative Assessment using district-required vetted questions from...
We had our first TDA practice test today. Since we were all writing ourselves silly (literally for hours) and only had 30 minutes of class, we sent our meager class time outside. HomeworkEnglish 8: work on No Red Ink for commonly confused words (as necessary);...
English 8 students worked on the last text structure of our short unit, the spacial text structure. We practiced with an established text, determining some of the keywords and noting how some keywords are suspiciously ordinary words: Afterward, we finished our plan...
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