Major Grades and CFAs

Major Grades and CFAs

English 8 students took their first district-required (or perhaps it’s just school-required — I’m not sure) CFA today on summarizing. Since we’re not using Mastery Connect exclusively for the CFAs (many thanks to the powers that be for that...
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...