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 method (clear up pronoun/antecedent ambiguity). It can lead to new...
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 this Monday before we have a small test on the topic Tuesday....
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 Tuesday. English I students finished up...
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 could provide each other. English I students began the second cycle of...
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 them with what we’d done yesterday to create some effective...
English 8 students worked on their first Schaffer paragraphs, returning in time to that awful time of fifth grade when we had to deal with Covid and its effects on school. Our first paragraph dealt with how Covid affected our learning in school. I introduced students...
Everyone worked on Schaffer paragraphs today — it was a Shaffer extravaganza. Schaffer-palooza. Schaffer-stock. English 8 students worked on re-ordering a scrambled Schaffer paragraph. English I students continued working on their first analytic Schaffer...
English 8 students continued with their introduction to the Schaffer model. We looked at an example paragraph and broke it down into its constituent parts. We’ll continue tomorrow with a scrambled Schaffer paragraph before we start writing our own next week....
English 8 students began the second half of the first unit with an introduction to the Schaffer model body paragraph that we will be using all year. Since we began the day going over work we’d completed the day before, we’re only halfway through the...
English I students finished up their practice with integrating quotes. We did one session of practice as a class with the following quote, determining as a class what could be paraphrased/eliminated from the quote: Topic: There are enemies everywhere. / Anyone could...
Today, my wife and I celebrate our nineteenth wedding anniversary. I’m not quite sure how she’s done it, but I’m grateful she’s put up with me for that long.
English I students finished up their work on initial Schaffer analytic work and then shifted our focus a little by working on integrating quotes for our concrete details. We began working on the basics of quote integration, and I modeled the first example, but we...
English 8 students finished up their reading and annotating of “Thank You, Ma’am.” We’ll begin analysis of it next week as we start working on an analytic Schaffer paragraph. English I students worked on their first analytic Schaffer paragraph...
English I students began working on their short story unit, looking today at how a story’s setting might be tied to its conflict. We read “The Sniper” and made a few observations about how the setting of the Irish Civil War is critical to the...
Students in fifth and sixth periods worked on Schaffer paragraphs, the model we will use throughout the year. Sixth- and seventh- period students worked on observing and inferring. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture of them — we were too busy....
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