Writing and Planning

by | Mar 19, 2009 | Update

First, fourth, and sixth periods were all doing in-class writing. Everyone is working to create class newsletters: first period on The Giver, fourth and sixth periods on Flowers for Algernon. First period will be going to the library tomorrow; fourth and sixth periods...
Complex Sentences

Complex Sentences

by | Mar 17, 2009 | Update

First period continued working on the newspaper articles for The Giver. I tried to impress upon students the concept of spin: since everything in Jonas’s community is completely controlled, the powers that be would not willingly admit that something  had spun...

Grammar and Flowers

by | Mar 9, 2009 | Update

First and second period both worked on grammatical topics. First period learned about simple and compound sentences. We’ll be adding complex and compound-complex later in the year. Second period began with a vocabulary quiz on Antigone. We then reviewed...
Release, A Long Passage from Antigone, and Punctuation

Release, A Long Passage from Antigone, and Punctuation

by | Mar 6, 2009 | Update

First period discussed the meaning of Release and the reason why a community would have such a policy: strict population control. We then switched gears to look at sentence types. We’ll be finishing that Monday. Second period continued with Antigone. We spent...