Literacy, Adverbs, and Bias

by | Sep 13, 2010 | Update

First period began a new unit. Today we worked on an anticipatory set for the lesson, working with the EQ, “How does literacy change lives?” I ended the class by reading Patricia Polacco’s Thank You, Mr. Falker to the class. Second and sixth periods...

Test and Review

by | Sep 10, 2010 | Update

First period finally had their parts of speech test. I’ll be grading them over the weekend. Second period did a up-out-of-the-seat-moving-around review of the parts of speech we’ve had thus far. It’s Friday — who wants to sit still Friday?...

Bias, Verbs, and Conclusions

by | Sep 8, 2010 | Update

Image via Wikipedia First period finished up the parts of speech today. We’ll be having a test Friday. (It was scheduled for tomorrow, but we’ll be MAP testing tomorrow.) Second and sixth finished up verbs. Just a little more work and we’ll be done...

Bias, Book Talks, and Conjunctions

by | Sep 7, 2010 | Update

First, second, and sixth periods had book talks about the South Carolina Junior Book Award nominees. First period returned in time to polish off conjunctions before the bell rang. (We’ll be having the final test over the parts of speech on Thursday for first...

Bias, Quizzes, and Adverbs

by | Sep 2, 2010 | Update

Second and sixth periods had quizzes on nouns, adjective, and adverbs. We’ll begin verbs tomorrow, and hopefully finish up the parts of speech unit on time next Friday. First period continued with adverbs. We’ll finish them up tomorrow, as well as...