Reading Hints and Compound Sentences

by | Apr 9, 2010 | Update

First and seventh period used their reading journals as a method of keeping track of what they’ve read. Students have complained about not remembering what they read, so I decided to practice summarizing and make it a required element of the novel we’re...

Writing and Review

by | Mar 24, 2010 | Update

First and seventh period wrapped up the first fifty pages of The Glory Field. We’ll have a vocab quiz on Friday. Second period went over the chapter in The Giver in which Jonas learns that he is to be the new Receiver of Memory. Fourth period took a break from...

Grammar Day

by | Mar 9, 2010 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods went over linking verbs in a desperate attempt to get subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement finished before the PASS writing test next week. We should finish up working on verbs tomorrow. Fourth period went over clauses, both...

Sensory Details and Review

by | Sep 11, 2009 | Update

Second period (English I) went over the material from the first half of our parts of speech review (nouns, pronouns, and adjectives). We began reading Antigone. First and seventh periods worked on sensory language a little more. We’ll start applying that to our...
Pronouns and General Stores

Pronouns and General Stores

by | Sep 3, 2009 | Update

First, second, and seventh periods began the selection from Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. We read about Maya’s grandmother’s general store and how it was like a private fun park for Maya growing up. We closed the lesson writing...