Completing Paragraphs and More

Completing Paragraphs and More

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...
Embedding Quotes and Gerunds

Embedding Quotes and Gerunds

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:...
Socratic Odyssey

Socratic Odyssey

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...