English Strategies students (fourth period) had an administrative day: getting passwords for various sites squared away and saved, learning about a new site (Moodle), and doing weekly self-evaluations. We’ll pick up with Nightjohn on Monday. English Studies...
English Studies continued with yesterday’s work on using context clues to determine a word’s meaning. We have four rules from yesterday that they began applying today: Look for synonyms/definitions Look for antonyms Look for relationship/transition words...
English Strategies students had a fantastic day today, working in groups to determine themes in chapter two of Nightjohn. We ended the day with a solid Class Dojo percentage, which confirmed what I already knew from working with various groups: some solid was...
Today first and fourth periods had a Socratic Seminar on “the n-word.” This word, so offensive and yet so prevalent in culture, appears multiple times in To Kill a Mockingbird and we were practicing our formal discussion skills (the Speech/Listening...
First and sixth periods learned about persuasive techniques. Second and sixth periods continued working on the Odyssey project. Today was one of the final days of full in-class preparation. The project will likely be due 21 October (but no earlier). Seventh period...
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