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...

Completion and Prepositions

by | Mar 16, 2009 | Update

I was out ill Thursday and Friday, hence the lack of progress reports. First period completed The Giver. We began a culminating project: a newspaper from Jonas’s community. Our publishing date will be approximately one week after Jonas leaves. We finished the...
Complex Persuasion

Complex Persuasion

by | Jan 12, 2009 | Update

Second period took a break from Romeo and Juliet to look at the four types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. The other periods began with a quick starter. One exercise: make a prediction about the following passage: The ground-breaking...

Mood for a Day

by | Sep 3, 2008 | Update

First, fourth, and sixth periods had a selection test on “Cub Pilot,” conflict, and prediction. Hopefully everyone did well. After the test, we began the next selection by talking about mood, which is the feeling that a piece of writing creates in a...