First and sixth periods began a unit on the short story. We’ll be reading several short stories as well as looking at the construction and elements of short stories. Today we worked on a general review (for the students)/pre-unit-assessment (for me) in the form...
First and sixth periods finished up the persuasive essay unit by working on the “Works Cited” page that will be required for the final draft. Second and fourth periods looked at an informational text to compare Harper Lee’s portrayal of the southern...
Today in first period we started off by going over what our English exam is going to be like Monday. We looked over all of the poems and discussed some of the questions that will be on the test. We then got to writing. We wrote in our composition books for about 20...
Image via Wikipedia First period worked on easily confused words like “there/their/they’re,” “to/too/two,” “accept/except” and the like. We also began our Spelling Demons list, a list of words that consistently gives us...
First period continued with the writing focus experiment. We added sharing into our daily writing workshop focus. It was the first peer conferencing session, so it was far from perfect, but we did well: Students got feedback and had an opportunity to perform a...
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