Phrases and More Close Reading

Phrases and More Close Reading

In second and seventh periods, we continued our multi-day close-reading work with a text on empathy. We’ll be putting it all on pause for a while next week, though, as we have our final PASS preparation work. First and fourth periods began one of several small...

Final Prep and Phrases

First and fifth periods had a final day of preparing their PowerPoint presentations on the commitment of Mary Todd Lincoln. Second and fourth periods began Great Expectations by looking at phrases before beginning the first bit of the book. Notes on phrases are...

Tired Friday

We’ll stick with homework alone today. Homework First and sixth periods: none. Second and fourth periods: work on Odyssey project; study for phrase test on Monday. Seventh period: questions 1-5 on pg....

Gerunds, A Quiz, and Review

First, sixth, and seventh periods all had a stems quiz today. First and sixth continued working on the persuasive techniques unit. Seventh period worked on using our pre-writing from Friday to create an essay. Second and fourth periods spent literally ten minutes...