English 8 students looked at an example paragraph about “Inside Out,” modeled on the paragraphs they wrote earlier this week. Through collaborative consultation they determined, among other things, that the second chunk was in fact superfluous and weakened...
English I students did a little more work on the Odyssey. We looked at how Homer’s non-linear storyline comes about (hint: it involves punctuation) to provide a model for one of the project requirements (that the game must in some way reflect the non-linear...
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...
English 8 students worked on No Red Ink practice with Schaffer paragraphs, determining the claim, evidence, and reasoning (as NRI calls the TS, CD, and CM). We’ll have a little more review on it this Monday before we have a small test on the topic Tuesday....
English 8 students worked on another Schaffer paragraph, a final paragraph before we will have a final assessment on the unit. This time, students worked with very little help except the aid they could provide each other. English I students began the second cycle of...
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