Quiz Day

All periods had an extended quiz today. First and fifth periods had a quiz on main ideas in texts, commonly confused words (i.e., homonyms), and using quotes from sources in one’s own writing. Second and fourth periods had the act three quiz for Romeo and...
Review Squared

Review Squared

All periods worked on quizzes that they have coming up Monday. The practice quiz for first and fifth periods is right here. Their quiz on Monday will cover determination of the main idea of a text, use of direct quotes of sources in writing, and commonly confused...
More Cutting, More Quoting

More Cutting, More Quoting

First and fifth periods continued working with the passages dealing with Charlie’s co-workers’ behavior in “Flowers for Algernon.” We ended the day returning to quoting sources, using the following stem to help incorporate source material into...

Snipping and Quoting

First and fifth periods continued working inserting quotes from texts into their own writing. Working in pairs, students searched for a sentence to support the claim that Charlie (from “Flowers for Algernon”) can’t spell very well. All students, with...