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

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...

Bias, Quizzes, and Adverbs

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...