Projects and Perspective

Projects and Perspective

19 First and seventh periods began working on the Glory Field Project. We’ll be spending most of our time until the end of the year working on them. Second period looked at perspective in Flowers for Algernon. Fourth period continued research for the...
Researching Parallel Apostrophies

Researching Parallel Apostrophies

20 First and seventh periods reached the absolutely best part of The Glory Field today, and the novel (which we are close to finishing) has come full circle. Second period worked on apostrophes — one of the many mistakes Charlie makes in his progress reports in...

Venn, Research, Performance

First and seventh periods continued with The Glory Field. We’ve begun the final section, set in 1994, and we will be using comparison/contrast as our method of analysis for this section. Second period continued with Flowers for Algernon. Fourth period began...
Inferences

Inferences

First and seventh periods went over segregation and integration in the South as presented in The Glory Field. We took a brief moment to look at the integration of the University of Alabama, as it served as a model for what Tommy Lewis is attempting to do in the book....
Paper Plates

Paper Plates

First and seventh periods spent a little time going over vocabulary. (We’ll have a vocab/spelling quiz Friday.) We had an activity called “Paper Plate Spelling.” The idea is simple: each group has 26 paper plates, each with one letter of the alphabet...