English 8 read the second selection from The Circuit. It’s called “Inside Out” and deals with the author’s first days in school and the challenges he face not being fluent in English. We used a Somebody Wanted But So chart to help us with our...
English 8 worked on two things: first, we took the graphic organizer we made yesterday: We first needed to add the commentary for our paragraph. We wrote it as a class, but in our graphic organizers, we only put phrases and general ideas. It’s best to use the...
English 8 students worked on a parts of speech review covering nouns, verbs, and adjectives. This is the last of our review: we’ll have a test on those three parts of speech late next week. English I students looked at three different perspectives on Calypso....
English 8 students went off-script a little today: we were supposed to start our next reading, “Under the Wire,” but as I read through students’ responses to the video we watched yesterday (“Harvest of Shame”), I realized we had an...
English 8 students began our new unit, which is about the search for home. We’ll be starting with some selections about immigration, so we prepared for those selections by watching 10 minutes from the legendary 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame. We also watched...
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