Completion and Prepositions

by | Mar 16, 2009 | Update

I was out ill Thursday and Friday, hence the lack of progress reports. First period completed The Giver. We began a culminating project: a newspaper from Jonas’s community. Our publishing date will be approximately one week after Jonas leaves. We finished the...

Grammar and Flowers

by | Mar 9, 2009 | Update

First and second period both worked on grammatical topics. First period learned about simple and compound sentences. We’ll be adding complex and compound-complex later in the year. Second period began with a vocabulary quiz on Antigone. We then reviewed...
Release, A Long Passage from Antigone, and Punctuation

Release, A Long Passage from Antigone, and Punctuation

by | Mar 6, 2009 | Update

First period discussed the meaning of Release and the reason why a community would have such a policy: strict population control. We then switched gears to look at sentence types. We’ll be finishing that Monday. Second period continued with Antigone. We spent...

Antigone, the Giver, and Charlie

by | Feb 27, 2009 | Update

First period continued with The Giver. We looked at all the ways the community tries to eliminate pain from the community. In the end, we determined that all the major differences between our society and theirs has to do with the elimination of pain. Second period...