As we near the middle of the second quarter, here are some questions to help stimulate meaningful discussions with your child about his/her mid-quarter grade.
English I and English 8 students went over the coming TDA, planning a bit how to attack Thursday’s prompt. We, of course, did not go over the actual prompt but discussed how to attack a prompt in general, how to see how many body paragraphs a given prompt would...
English 8 students continued working on text structures focusing today on the compare/contrast structure. We’ll be finishing up the short unit this week. English 8 students began working on their culminating project, which is a game based on the Odyssey....
All classes went to the library today for the second half of the Junior Book Awards presentations (or the first half, in the case of English I). English I students, after their library visit, took a break from the Odyssey and had a brief review before their phrase...
English I students finished with The Police song “Wrapped Around Your Finger” as we covered allusions and introduced motifs. And that song is an excellent exemplar of them all. This quarter’s major extra credit option comes from the past two...
English 8 students worked on their first assessment for the text structure lesson we’ve been working on. The results were fantastic — a good start to the new unit. English I students were a little ahead of my schedule (about 1.5 days), so we rewarded their...
English I students worked on Homeric similes, looking at two examples to determine how these odd similes are created. English 8 students began the new unit (a very short unit) on text structures. We should finish the unit in a little over two weeks. HomeworkEnglish 8...
English 8 students completed their Flowers for Algernon unit with a short test. We’ll begin a new short unit on text structures tomorrow. English I students worked on their article of the week looking at the word “entrepôt” in the AOW. We also went...
English 8 students had a Socratic seminar today about Flowers for Algernon and some moral implications from the story. We discussed two things: Should Charlie have gone through with the operation? What did he gain? What did he lose? What are the moral responsibilities...
English I students worked on an examination of how various artists throughout history have represented the story of Calypso in the Odyssey. We began by examining the etymology of the word and came up with a rough Schaffer outline for our thoughts: Afterward, we looked...
English I students went over the opening of the Odyssey, examining the things that make the piece a challenging passage to read. We finished up the prologue and will move to the first part tomorrow. English 8 students continued with Flowers for Algernon....
English I students worked on the start of the new unit covering briefly the elements of an epic and what an epic simile looks like (very briefly). We then turned to infinitive phrases in order to prepare finish up verbal phrases before moving on to appositives, a...
English I students completed work on gerund phrases in today’s short post-test session. English 8 students had a final day to work on their final Schaffer paragraph about Flowers for Algernon. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete your theme/development Algernon...
English I went over participial phrases today. Participles and their phrases are some of the trickiest elements of grammar, but we’ll master it soon enough. English 8 students combined two of last topics to work on the question of how writers develop a theme....
English I students finished up their poetry unit with a look at the rules for creating a villanelle: Afterward, we had a Gimkit session to help prepare for tomorrow. English 8 students finished up the fist step of understanding what it means for a writer to develop...
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