Participles and Feedback

Participles and Feedback

English 8 students finished, in accordance with the district pacing guide, a couple of lessons covering participles and participial phrases. We worked on materials from the workbook — practice with identifying participles. The switch from isolated participles...
Participles and Assessment

Participles and Assessment

English 8 students worked on a grammar lesson on participles, connected with our current story “The Brave Little Toaster.” We used this slide show with embedded Pear Deck questions to introduce the topic. We’ll continue working on it tomorrow using...
Writing and Analyzing

Writing and Analyzing

English I students worked on their first analytic paragraph, which is about “The Most Dangerous Game.” We worked in groups to focus our topic sentence after looking at the rubric and a model selection about “The Sniper.” English 8 students...
Planning and Plots

Planning and Plots

English I students worked on the planning for their first Schaffer paragraph on “The Most Dangerous Game.” Students should have a good idea of their topic sentences and should have two passages from the story selected, which they will use as their first...