Today we warmed up with writing a creative short story about a gorgeous sunset (or sunrise?) photograph. We then shared our stories aloud in class, and then took our vocabulary test. After our test, we filled out our citizenship slips, and cleared our desks for a debate. I wasn’t sure how this would go, but [...]
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Today we warmed up by reviewing and writing about our adventure through persuasive-land. We then corrected Wordly Wise Part E and got our grammar tests back over clauses. We went over answers, we looked at scores and decided…we need to retest. I’m not sure what went wrong, but the scantron machine gave odd scores for [...]
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Today we had a 2,000 point test over all the vocab words from the beginning of the year. Nah, just kiddin’–Happy Fool’s Day!
Today I conferenced with each student on what to do to improve his or her persuasive essay. We worked all period on homework and studying for our vocab test. Most classes did use [...]
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Today in class we went over all the questions that each type of clause could answer in order to help students take their test with these questions in mind. This info was left upon the whiteboard for everyone to see while taking the test. We then played a quick game of true *Sparkle* where each [...]
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Today in class we began with a review of clauses for our test on block day, played a quick easy game of Twinkle to correct it, and then read quietly for ten minutes from our new SCOPE magazines. After we read quietly, we scanned one article in particular for subordinate clauses and identified them as [...]
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Today we began by having a friend/peer edit and proofread our essays. We completed a revision handout called, “Revising: Evaluate Peer Essays” by answering specific questions about the writer’s work, and making constructive suggestions for improvement. thank you to all students who actually came to class prepared with their rough drafts. We spent the remainder [...]
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Today in class, we spent the first twenty minutes (at least) of each class going over a review of clauses for our test on block day this week. We also discussed the idea of counterarguments, where they should be placed within a persuasive essay, and then spent the remainder of class time writing the rest [...]
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Today in class, we reviewed the rule for adverb phrases versus adverb clauses, and we went over exercise 5 on page 121 in the Holt handbook. We also got a handout on the same subject, completing half in class, and the other half for homework. We then went on to discuss our group persuasive essays [...]
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Yesterday we went over the types of writing that you could be asked to do on the STAR Writing Test on Tuesday. I pointed out that persuasive essays may be the topic covered because 1. we haven’t devoted much time to them, and 2. we haven’t seen one from STAR on persuasive in a few [...]
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Today I was out of the classroom unfortunately. But here’s what was on the agenda: we warmed up with a short grammar exercise to copy the rule #6e from page 120 in the Holt Handbook. Students were also to copy the frequent questions that adverb clauses answer.
Then we took our spelling #8 test, and got [...]
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