English 8 students worked on the final major project of the quarter, which involves improved quote embedding and plagiarism awareness/avoidance. English I students continued with the three-day clause unit, focusing on subordinate clauses and learning how to...
English 8 students worked on integrating quotes for Schaffer paragraphs. English I students had their final day of game preparation. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: complete the game (rules and all) for Monday; prepare for the phrase test...
Fourth- and fifth-period students worked on their Odyssey games. Some of the students are getting incredibly creative with their games. We’re all looking forward to playing them next week. Sixth and seventh periods finished up “Under the Wire” today,...
English I students worked on their Odyssey game projects today. We’ll be working on them in class through the rest of this week. English 8 students continued with their immigration unit, reading “Under the Wire” today using the reciprocal teaching...
English I students had a Socratic Seminar on the question of whether or not Odysseus is a hero. We began with a quick-write so students could have some initial ideas. I wrote from both perspectives: Odysseus Is Not A Hero In the modern world, a hero is almost always...
English I students began the final work for the first part of the Odyssey, looking at the Police’s song “Wrapped Around Your Finger,” a song rich with allusions to the Odyssey and other works. English 8 students finished up text structure, doing a...
Fourth and fifth periods worked on the next section of the Odyssey. We worked on a new technique of reading, something students can do at home on their own or with a friend to help with comprehension of tough passages. English 8 students did a little more work on text...
English I students worked on Calypso, looking at how other artists have made allusions to her story. English 8 finished their final drafts. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete narrative as needed. English I Honors: read “I am Laertes’ Son,” “The Lotus Eaters,” and...
English I students began the day with a quiz to show students that the Odyssey is not a typical piece of writing students can just breeze through. Students will need to read a little more carefully and slowly than they are probably used to. We went over a few tricks...
English I students began a new unit on the Odyssey, reading the opening lines and going over some expectations about the epic form we’ll be studying. This included the non-linear nature of the narrative: English 8 students continued with the narrative writing....
English I students worked on infinitives today, and in doing so, they’re nearing the end of our short unit on phrases. English 8 students used a model personal narrative to reverse-engineer its planning before planning their own personal narratives....
English I students finished up participles and moved on to gerunds. They’re a little trickier than participles in some ways and yet a little easier to recognize at the same time. English 8 worked on text structures some more by integrating the next step of our...
English 8 continued a brief overview of text structures in conjunction with the “Tell-Tale Heart.” English I students went over participial phrases today after going over the annotations they could have done for yesterday’s test. HomeworkEnglish...
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