English 8 students began a new unit today on the Diary of Anne Frank, our final major reading selection for the year. We began with an anticipation lesson designed to get students empathetic to Anne Frank’s situation and the dangers she faced as the Nazis took...
English 8 students continued their research projects. We were applying our notetaking and summarizing skills we learned and practiced yesterday to their actual research. English I students worked on the first scene from R&J a little more, looking specifically at...
Today, after the phrase quiz, we worked on using phrases and clauses together to break sentences down into constituent parts. If the sentence is the base unit, then the next smallest unit would be the clause followed by the phrase. That was the extent of our breakdown...
English 8 students worked on their Friday inference work. We re-examined the following text: Kyle ran into his house, slamming the door behind him. He threw his book bag on the floor and plopped onto the couch. After six hours of playing Grand Larceny VII, he ate some...
English 8 students cleared up some lingering final issues (old AOW work, some vocab studying for the end-of-the-quarter AOW vocab test), and English I students spend some more time working on phrases and their Hero’s Journey analysis of the Odyssey. All classes...
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