Completion and Beginnings

by | Aug 24, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First and sixth periods continued with the writing workshop introductory lessons. We went over three ways to get ideas for our experiential writing: The Expert Inventory The Life Line The Inquiry List Second and fourth periods completed the parts of speech review...
Writing and Adverbs

Writing and Adverbs

by | Aug 23, 2011 | Update

First and sixth periods began a flash “Intro to the Writing Workshop” unit that we will use to practice the workshop model as well as lay some content groundwork for later workshops. Second and fourth periods are about to finish up their parts of speech...

Day Two

by | Aug 18, 2011 | English 8, English I Honors, Update

First and sixth periods worked on a few procedures and spent some time getting to know each other. Many students already knew each other, but there are always a few new faces in each classroom. Second and fourth periods began the lightning-quick parts of speech...

Voice, Propaganda, and Review

by | Sep 16, 2010 | Update

First period began Nightjohn. We’ll slowly begin incorporating discussions of and exercises about voice and sentence structure. Second and sixth periods reviewed for the test tomorrow on the parts of speech. Fourth period turned to old cigarette commercials for...

Test and Review

by | Sep 10, 2010 | Update

First period finally had their parts of speech test. I’ll be grading them over the weekend. Second period did a up-out-of-the-seat-moving-around review of the parts of speech we’ve had thus far. It’s Friday — who wants to sit still Friday?...