February 1st

Today Mr. Allen was in.

Humanities 8

Today after silent reading, students worked looked at a list of inventions and innovations.  They were asked to classify them into the two categories and to guess which were Roman inventions and which were not.  After that students used the netbooks to do a Rome scavenger hunt.  

English 10

Today after silent reading, students were asked to organize their portfolios for assessment (by date) and to complete a self-assessment form.  They also added the goal of: being able to recognize and write extended metaphors.  Then some examples of extended metaphors were shown and discussed. Finally, students worked on writing two extended metaphors.  This is going to be part of the next big assignment - a poetry package/anthology.