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...