Middle schoolers are facilitating class over the next few weeks as we discuss their class’s assigned novels. While this has been the first week for

Now that we’ve read and written summaries and analyses about short stories, we are reading a novel as a class. Each grade is reading a

We are in the drafting process of our short story review, including completing our peer review process. During peer review, students read two-three of their

We all have opinions, and students are being encouraged to share theirs about one of the short stories we’ve read in the form of a

This week, students have chosen a short story to do a creative project about, electing to either recreate a scene with some sort of visual

We read our final short story this week! Soon, we will be demonstrating our interactions with and knowledge of the stories through a variety of

Hopefully you’ve noticed your student reading this week’s short story and writing in their composition book at home. By using the composition book, students are

Our short story unit continues! By reading various short stories, we are getting more practice at our reading comprehension and summarization skills. These skills have

Students told their stories through their personal playlists. Now, we begin reading stories from others.  We discussed why we tell stories, including to entertain, inform,

After a full week of school, the blank Kudos Corner was becoming counterintuitive to its purpose (and oh-so boring to look at), so students wrote