English I students went over infinitives today; in doing so, we’ve completed all five phrases: prepositional participial gerund infinitive appositive We’ll be having a test on them next week. We’ve tentatively set the date for Tuesday 10 December. We...
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 embedding quotes in our CDs. We have be using a very simple format: “For example, the text says ‘here is the quote.'” This is acceptable but not optimal. Today we worked on creating more effective quote integration:...
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 continued with the brief parts of speech review, going over adjectives today: English I students had time to finish their test and then went over participial phrases. HomeworkEnglish 8: complete (as needed) the two quick writes on No Red Ink:...
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