First period worked on voice after a bit of practice determining the meaning of words from context. Second and fourth periods finished up their group work creating outlines for a character analysis. Fifth period read chapter two of Nightjohn, looking at how standard...
First period began reading Nightjohn, looking at voice and how authors create it. Specifically, we looked at word choice of the narrator and discussed how we were able to figure out she is a slave before actually being told directly. (Notes from first period available...
First period worked on making predictions and activating prior knowledge prior to reading Nightjohn. Fifth period finished up the same activity from yesterday and began Nightjohn, looking at voice and how authors create it. Second and fourth periods worked on a new...
First period had one of those “go with the moment” moments this morning. The students have an essay due Wednesday, and they said some class time with me helping would be useful. We spent a very productive half hour working with partners on first drafts....
First and sixth periods began a unit on the short story. We’ll be reading several short stories as well as looking at the construction and elements of short stories. Today we worked on a general review (for the students)/pre-unit-assessment (for me) in the form...
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