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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

End of Year Writing Assessment

End of Year Writing Assessment
On Thursday and Friday, you will be given a repeat of the Beginning of Year writing assessment. You will have two sessions to pencil and paper your answer to one of these questions:

Write a narrative about what you like to do in your spare time
or
Write a narrative about what makes you special

You may think about ideas for these questions over the next couple of days. You will only be allowed to do your writing in class, but you can bring in ideas of what you what to write about.

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Unit 12.5

H/W - The major focus for this week is putting the finishing touches to your Singapore Project.

Due Date for your Social Studies Singapore History Project: Wed May 23rd

28 comments:

Maddy Z said...

Can we bring in some tips for writing narratives?

Hamadude said...

is a narrative basically just a essay that answers a question(i wasn't here at the beginning of the year)

George said...

no carter
a narative is basicly a short, realistic story.

Maddy Z said...

Mr. Buxton -

You never had the chance to check my thesis and I forgot to put it on the blog last night. Is this okay(?):

The location of the Raffles Statue is directly symbolic of the contributions of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles to Singapore’s growth as a nation.

Carter -
Narrative: a true story/account of events or experiences

Sabine said...

narratives are boring! can we make something like "once upon a time there was a girl named sabine and what she liked to do in spare time is..."

Rachel L said...

People who think things are boring are only boring themselves
- Quote by: My dad
and all the people in my social studies group please go to the goggle docs

Hamadude said...

so a narrative is just like a short story about whatever eg. what i do in my spare time

Han said...

Carter: Yup... but narratives are not fantasy

Anonymous said...

Narrative: writing a story (Realistic Fiction)

Personal Narrative: Based on your life but fiction

Essay: True Story information etc.

Hamadude said...

thnx guys:D

Unknown said...

'precise' adj needed before location

of of to - needs rewording

make whatever you did in your spare time into an interesting story

if you begin with that Sabine...yes... it will be !

Han said...

Unknown is Mr.Buxton right? Are you on your ipad????

Hamadude said...

yes han unknown is mr. b

Maddy Z said...

Is the singular possessive of Raffles Raffles' or Raffle's? His last name ends with an 's' so I got confused!

Camille B. said...

well of course that's easy to guess mr buxton was on his i pad yesterday and it did the same thing. Rachel that's a good point... but i still think chinese is boring you can't change that.

Han said...

Maddy- I think it is Raffles's

Maddy Z said...

I know it isn't because on both Google Docs and Word they underlined it with red... When I did spell suggestions those two were the most probable answers.

Rachel L said...

can one person for my social studies group print out the script cuz my internet is going to slow the get to google docs on my other computer...

berrysweetπ said...

It's definitely what Han said- his name isn't Sir Stamford Raffle, it is Sir Stamford Raffles.

berrysweetπ said...

Camille- you mean a salient point.


No! District 2 against District 2 in the Vocabulary Games! They are planning a Poison-Berry Act. Any ideas?

Rachel L said...
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Rachel L said...

never mind anisha i found a way to print it

Maya S. said...

Mr. Buxton- Is this a good thesis statement?

Because Sir Stamford Raffles chose to keep the area for The Padang, there have been many events significant to Singapore history.

Rachel L said...
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berrysweetπ said...

Maya- as you do not state your 3 reasons, that is a topic sentence, not a thesis statement. Topic sentences are for essays. Persuasive essays have a thesis statement. Right? Anyway, topic sentences never have because.



May the best tribute win (I intend to)

Maddy Z said...

Nevermind, I figured it out!

Maya -
The second half of your compound sentence doesn't make sense. "There have been many events significant to Singapore history" can't stand alone.

Maddy Z said...
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berrysweetπ said...

Maddy- it's a complex sentence that Maya wrote.

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