English I students conducted a Socratic seminar about the short stories “The Necklace” and “The Gift of the Magi.” We used the more formal paired alignment of the Socratic seminar, which we will use later in the year for more formal...
English I students went over their first major writing assignment on “The Cask of Amontillado” and whether or not we can trust the narrative despite the narrator being a confessed murderer. (We can — the “confessed” part is the key.) Afterward, we began going over our...
All classes took a bit of a break from English while Mrs. Torlay, one of our counselors, explained to everyone what the IGP (Individual Graduation Plan) will look like. HomeworkEnglish 8: prepare for the test on Friday over our first two stories (Story 1 is here...
All classes conducted their first Socratic Seminars today. Fourth and fifth periods discussed the story “The Blue Stones” while sixth and seventh periods talked about the role technology plays in our world (in connection with stories we’ve been...
English 8 students worked on their Friday inferring writing work. We’re still on the same text about Paul and Alice, this time focusing on the nature of their relationship. English I students finished their first major writing assignment on “The Cask of...
English 8 students took their first district-required (or perhaps it’s just school-required — I’m not sure) CFA today on summarizing. Since we’re not using Mastery Connect exclusively for the CFAs (many thanks to the powers that be for that...
English 8 students finished up “There Will Come Soft Rains” and did a plot analysis of the story. Tomorrow we’ll finish up with practice creating a summary. English I students continued discussing “The Cask of Amontillado,” focusing again...
English 8 students finished up reading “There Will Come Soft Rains” as the second story in our first unit. We’ll be analyzing its plot and working to summarize it tomorrow and Thursday. English I students began the analysis of “The Cask of...
English 8 students began their second short story, which they will be analyzing on their own as opposed to the class version we did with the first short story. Today students began a two-day period of reading and annotating the story “There Will Come Soft...
English I students worked on parsing long sentences in confusing texts as we began reading “The Cask of Amontillado” We’ll be using this for the second story in our short story analytic writing unit. English 8 students worked on the newly-initiated...
English I students worked on their second cycle of short stories and analytic paragraphs. Today we read “In the Family,” an odd story about a seemingly magic mirror that everyone seems just to expect without much surprise or concern. English 8 students...
English 8 students finished, in accordance with the district pacing guide, a couple of lessons covering participles and participial phrases. We worked on materials from the workbook — practice with identifying participles. The switch from isolated participles...
English 8 students worked on a grammar lesson on participles, connected with our current story “The Brave Little Toaster.” We used this slide show with embedded Pear Deck questions to introduce the topic. We’ll continue working on it tomorrow using...
English I students were going to spend half the day finishing up their final drafts of their “Dangerous Game” analytic paragraphs. However, we discovered quickly enough that we needed more time to work on the drafts, so we ended up spending the entire...
English I students worked on their first analytic paragraph, which is about “The Most Dangerous Game.” We worked in groups to focus our topic sentence after looking at the rubric and a model selection about “The Sniper.” English 8 students...
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