All students worked on projects today. English I worked on their Odyssey project, of which they will complete beta versions by the end of class Wednesday. English 8 students worked on their “Christmas Gift” project. They’ve completed their reading...
English 8 students looked at an example paragraph about “Inside Out,” modeled on the paragraphs they wrote earlier this week. Through collaborative consultation they determined, among other things, that the second chunk was in fact superfluous and weakened...
English I students worked on their Odyssey projects. English 8 students finished their practice writing for the final major project. HomeworkEnglish 8 Studies: none.English I Honors: work on phrases practices as...
When I lived in Poland, I got into cycling. I bought a mountain bike, bought a road bike, and then my wife and I decided neither was for us: touring is where it’s at! So I converted my mountain bike into a make-shift touring bike and we set off. Every possible...
English I students did a little more work on the Odyssey. We looked at how Homer’s non-linear storyline comes about (hint: it involves punctuation) to provide a model for one of the project requirements (that the game must in some way reflect the non-linear...
English I students went over infinitives today; in doing so, we’ve completed all five phrases: prepositional participial gerund infinitive appositive We’ll be having a test on them next week. We’ve tentatively set the date for Tuesday 10 December. We...
English 8 students had their test on parts of speech. Afterward, students worked on their “Inside Out” memoir and the accompanying Somebody Wanted But So engagement. Students who did not finish it in class need to complete the work at home by the time we...
English 8 read the second selection from The Circuit. It’s called “Inside Out” and deals with the author’s first days in school and the challenges he face not being fluent in English. We used a Somebody Wanted But So chart to help us with our...
English 8 worked on two things: first, we took the graphic organizer we made yesterday: We first needed to add the commentary for our paragraph. We wrote it as a class, but in our graphic organizers, we only put phrases and general ideas. It’s best to use the...
English 8 finished their first round of practice with embedding quotes. We shared and assessed our homework. We determined we should include the following for their context: They had already made it to California. They were waiting for work. We also determined we...
English 8 students continued working on the quote embedding practice we began yesterday. In addition to our trip to the library, we moved students away from teach-centered and group-based work on the embedding process and more toward independent work. English I...
English 8 students worked on embedding quotes in our CDs. We have be using a very simple format: “For example, the text says ‘here is the quote.'” This is acceptable but not optimal. Today we worked on creating more effective quote integration:...
English 8 students began working on the first of three selections from The Circuit, Francisco Jiménez’s memoir of life as a migrant child. We read “Under the Wire,” the first chapter of the book, and worked on comprehension and discussion questions...
English 8 students worked on a parts of speech review covering nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This is the last of our review: we’ll have a test on those three parts of speech late next week. English I students looked at three different perspectives on Calypso....
English 8 students went off-script a little today: we were supposed to start our next reading, “Under the Wire,” but as I read through students’ responses to the video we watched yesterday (“Harvest of Shame”), I realized we had an...
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