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We handed in our narratives today. We began our notes for internal punctuation portion of our unit. Students completed exercises for commas and colons. We will finish these notes Wednesday and begin a review assignment as a conclusion to the unit. We visited the library today after 10-15 minutes of revisions to our narratives. Students are asked to hand in their stories tonight via google classroom or at the beginning of tomorrow's class using one of the school's chrome books. Rubrics and peer editing sheets will be turned in at that time as well.
Today in Language Arts, students continued work on their narrative stories. These stories are 6-10 sentences long and are to contain descriptive parts of speech. Students received a copy of the rubric for scoring today in class. We will peer edit these stories tomorrow, so rough copies need to be completed tonight if not finished. We completed our notes and began practice work on sentence fragments and run-on sentences. We will continue this work tomorrow.
Students handed in their narrative response questions for the Steinbeck passage read on Friday. We began writing our own descriptive narratives about an animal crossing a road. Boring premise, but like Steinbeck, our precise adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs will paint an interesting scene full of rising action. We will have 10-15 min in class tomorrow to put the final phrases in our stories. Rough copies are due for peer editing on Wednesday.
Students received their parts of speech review assignment back. We read a story by John Steinbeck and complete literal, inferential, and a critical questions based on this narrative. The five questions are due for Monday though most students have completed this in class.
Today was the first day of October and the first day of our October challenge. Students are asked to be on time, prepared, and hand in all assignments by the due dates during this month. Success will be tracked. Students with no more than 2 strikes indicating a late, forgotten materials, or nhis, will be rewarded in November for their diligence. Good luck to all students.
We wrote a short quiz today before going to the library. Some students performed quite well on this quiz and others indicated that progress still needs to be made. I will give a second parts of speech quiz next Wednesday, October 8th. I will keep the highest of the two grades in the grade book. This should give some individuals a chance to make improvements and seek support if needed. Though we will not be spending further class time on parts of speech, I will share a study guide and some further practice questions when the quizzes are handed back tomorrow. |
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June 2017
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