Wed 1-10
1. We continued working on subordinate clauses bellringer practice. Quiz on Friday. Practice worksheet due Friday. 2. Today we started...
Tue 1-9
1. Bellringer practice this week is subordinate clauses. Today we practiced using IXL Level J (8th grade) A.12 for 10 minutes. 2. Next,...
Mon. 1-8
1. We're continuing our bellringer of dependent (subordinate) clauses this week. Quiz on Friday 1-12. There is also an extra practice...
Wed 1-3 to Fri 1-5
Wednesday On our first day back from break, we made our New Year's Reading Resolutions. We discussed ways to read more books in 2018 and...
Thu 12-14 & Fri 12-15
1. Bellringer quiz on Friday. 2. We spent these two days looking at the first 4 criteria for public speaking performances. We looked at...
Wed 12-13-17
1. Today we practiced some IXL skills. We spend 10 minutes on each skill: Level J (8th grade) A.6: Is it a complete sentence or a...
Tue 12-12-17
1. We are continuing our work on simple and compound sentences for our bellringers. 2. Today we are continuing our slam poetry with...
Mon 12-11: 2.8 Slam Dunk
1. Our bellringer practice this week is Sentence Types One (Simple & Compound Sentences). Quiz on Friday. Click here for this week's...
Mon 12-4 - Wed 12-6: Allusions in Poetry
1. This week our bellringer practice is on Independent Clauses. Quiz on Friday. (click here for this week's practice) 2. Monday we...
Fri 12/01: Whitman and Lincoln (part 2)
1. We started class with our Subjects and Predicates quiz. 2. We then discussed the meaning of author's tone and the role diction plays...
