Happy Halloween!

After prepping for the personal narrative essay that we're starting for real on Monday, we wrapped up the period with a brief study of Poe's "The Raven."

Narrative Models

Today we looked at some model personal narratives. Students had one of four narratives that they analyzed alone and then as a group. Afterward, we presented these analyses to the class. Absent students should choose one of the four stories posted at our class page and analyze it using the questions below.

Mango Street Final Project

Today students spent the period on a final one-page analysis of a theme in The House on Mango Street. They should finish the assignment for homework. Handouts are at our class page.

And we have power...briefly

Today students did a bit of synthesis writing, comparing and contrasting The House on Mango Street with the nonfiction article "Healing 'Brick City.'"

End Q1

We wrapped up the quarter today by finishing the work we started at CommonLit.org on Tuesday.

Q1 Benchmark: Part 2

Today students wrote the essay they planned yesterday. Essays will be scored by the English Department on Tuesday.

Writer's Notebooks & Essay Planning

Today students turned in their writer's notebooks and spent the period taking notes and planning for the essay they will write in class tomorrow.

Reflecting on the End

Mango Says Goodbye...

Almost the End

Today we did a bit of analytical writing and then read a few more chapters. Period 5 & 6 only got to "The Three Sisters."

The Darkest Part

Three More Chapters and a bit of HW

3 Chapters

Splitting Time

Today students split time between Khan Academy (and making up Tuesday's work if they were absent) and some independent work on The House on Mango Street. The slides are here.

"No Speak English" & "Rafaela..."

10/9—The Great Blackout

Despite the lack of power today, we had class and did it old school. After checking and sharing the homework, we read "Four Skinny Trees"  (pps. 74-75) and then did a bit of writing comparing Cisneros' text with Tupac's poem from Tuesday.

CommonLit, Tupac, & Narrative #4 (due tomorrow)

Reviewing Friday

Today we reviewed the work from Friday. The slides are here.

Khan & Ruthie

Today we worked on Khan Academy and reading groups read and wrote about "Edna's Ruthie."

SMM Modeling & Practice

After looking at and copying down a model SMM, we read and wrote about "Born Bad."

"Hips" to "Papa..."

Chanclas, Hips, and First Jobs...

After assigning the homework, due tomorrow, we spent the period on a few chapters from HMS, getting all the way through "First Job" in period 4.