Participles and Feedback

Participles and Feedback

English 8 students finished, in accordance with the district pacing guide, a couple of lessons covering participles and participial phrases. We worked on materials from the workbook — practice with identifying participles. The switch from isolated participles...
Participles and Assessment

Participles and Assessment

English 8 students worked on a grammar lesson on participles, connected with our current story “The Brave Little Toaster.” We used this slide show with embedded Pear Deck questions to introduce the topic. We’ll continue working on it tomorrow using...
Diagramming and Inference Work

Diagramming and Inference Work

English I Honors students squeezed in a little experiment as we work through a grammar unit at the end of the semester: sentence diagramming! English 8 students worked on Friday inferring. We’re almost done with it for the year: we’ll be doing different...

Taboo, Run-ons, and a Tough Topic

English 8 Strategies students turned to grammar, it being Wednesday, practicing correcting run-on sentences after learning to identify them last week. We’ll finish this and Monday’s lesson up tomorrow, then move to a combination of fragments and run-ons...