Continuing Work

Continuing Work

13 If all things went according to plans, first and sixth periods continued working on Monster while second and fourth periods had another day of research for the Great Expectations project and seventh period returned to work on their illustrated...
Group Work Galore

Group Work Galore

Every single class completed group work. To that end, we set the desks in quads during first period and they stayed that way until the end of the day. First and sixth both completed Alphabet Story rewrites of the stories we’d worked on yesterday in class. It was...
Endings, Paragraphs, and Loaded Words

Endings, Paragraphs, and Loaded Words

First period had a quick mini-lesson on endings, concluding a three-day mini-lesson cycle on the structural development of an essay: good beginnings, tight transitions, and effective endings. Afterward, students continued working on their portfolios. Second and sixth...