17 school days left All classes had a last-minute strategy session for tomorrow’s TDA SC-Ready test. A few pointers: Everyone’s goal is a minimum of 1 Schaffer body paragraph. Two body paragraphs would be better, and three would be best. Students must...
Prewriting: The Graphic Organizers As you look at the graphic organizers I created, notice that I never really write a complete sentence. I just write enough to help me remember what my original thoughts were. Writing the whole thing in the GO is not necessary, and...
18 school days left All classes worked on literature circles today, which meant the classroom looked quite different than it normally looks: English 8 students (above and below) worked on The Diary of Anne Frank. We’ll be reading all of act 2 in literature...
22 school days left English 8 students had their final day of presentations for the Diary of Anne Frank play. Students who were absent when their groups presented will have an opportunity later to make up that major grade. English I students began examining the...
23 school days left English 8 students worked on active/passive as well as some inference work from The Diary of Anne Frank. The comprehension questions from act 1 scene 3 are due Monday. English I students finished up work on the trial and will move on to the...
24 school days left English 8 students had their third day of The Diary of Anne Frank presentations today. Once again, I forgot to take any pictures of the events, but both periods did a good job. We’ll have our final day of presentations tomorrow. English...
25 school days left English 8 students continued with their Anne Frank acting presentations. We’ve done two out of the four groups. We also have been working on active/passive verbs this week, trying to tie up some final loose ends before the SC-Ready test,...
26 school days left English 8 students had their first day of presentations for The Diary of Anne Frank. The first group in both classes did a good job. English I students continued with their lit circles for To Kill a Mockingbird. Today they worked on tracing...
English 8 students began the second part of their fourth-quarter major project: we looked at indirect characterization and the role it plays in drama (since all direct characterization would be in the stage directions to which the audience wouldn’t have access)....
English 8 students worked on their Anne Frank projects. We’ll be presenting next week. English I students worked on their lit circles and began learning about clauses. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete Anne Frank questions as necessary (scene 1 and scene 2)...
English 8 students finished up act 1 scene 1 of The Diary of Anne Frank, noting in particular the creation of a flashback with Mr. Frank’s reading of the diary that morphs into Anne reading the diary. English I students went through their first literature circle...
English 8 students began acting out The Diary of Anne Frank today. We worked on all the thought and preparation we have to go through to make sure our presentation will be accurate. We explored ideas about staging, props, and blocking. English I students finished up...
Students in English 8 began their last unit on The Diary of Anne Frank. We went through an anticipation guide to help put students in Anne’s place to see what she was facing. English I students began To Kill a Mockingbird, which will likely be our last unit. We...
All classes conducted Socratic Seminars today. English I students discussed which character is ultimately responsible for the “death” of Juliet at the end of act 4. English 8 students discussed the reasons for changing the start time for high school...
English 8 students continued working on their research for the argumentative essay we will be writing next week. Students should be finishing the research tomorrow. The next TDA will take place on Thursday, so we will have a shortened lesson then. We won’t begin...
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