What did you learn about Civility - Compassion - Empathy that you will remember for the rest of your life?
How will you 'make a difference?'
Enjoy our class song on 'others first' again. Think about the message it portrays. Comments are appreciated
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
Friday, September 17, 2010
Evaluating - Review
Thinking about evaluating: Read below to help reinforce today’s session
An 'Evaluation' is an opinion about a piece of writing. It is not a summary of a story.
How do you develop an opinion?
Pretend you are a food critics who have been asked to evaluate a restaurant. What will you be looking for to make a decision about whether or not the restaurant is a good one??
Think about CRITERIA (categories)
Service; Tasty Food; Cleanliness of place; Popular or not; Variety of food; Price to value; Looks like; smells; appearance of store; Healthy food?
Next, you prioritize your categories! What is the most important category to make your final decision about the restaurant?
Once you have categories to think about your opinion, you can back up your opinion with Proof—proper nouns, “quotes”, facts, numbers, dates, names, vocab. Take notes about the Details! Such as Service: The waiter brought us snails when we ordered shrimp. Waiter was rude—he did not seem interested in us at all. He was grumpy. Cleanliness: Roach in the booth. Gum under the table. Hair in the food.
Don’t forget your opening hook and topic sentence. You are on your way to evaluating!
An 'Evaluation' is an opinion about a piece of writing. It is not a summary of a story.
How do you develop an opinion?
Pretend you are a food critics who have been asked to evaluate a restaurant. What will you be looking for to make a decision about whether or not the restaurant is a good one??
Think about CRITERIA (categories)
Service; Tasty Food; Cleanliness of place; Popular or not; Variety of food; Price to value; Looks like; smells; appearance of store; Healthy food?
Next, you prioritize your categories! What is the most important category to make your final decision about the restaurant?
Once you have categories to think about your opinion, you can back up your opinion with Proof—proper nouns, “quotes”, facts, numbers, dates, names, vocab. Take notes about the Details! Such as Service: The waiter brought us snails when we ordered shrimp. Waiter was rude—he did not seem interested in us at all. He was grumpy. Cleanliness: Roach in the booth. Gum under the table. Hair in the food.
Don’t forget your opening hook and topic sentence. You are on your way to evaluating!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Lesson Review
It is important to reflect on everything we covered today.
3) Do you know the difference between power 1s, power 2s, power3s?
5) Why is selecting p2s the hardest for writing?
If you can answer all of the above, you have a good grasp of today's work.
Social Studies
What is the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy?Do not forget your newspaper article for tomorrow? What categories do you think you will use to evaluate the article?
Try putting some of your simple sentences on the blog. Maybe friends can comment on them.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
SAT Practice - FOR FUN!!!!
I am adding this link to the blog on the right side of the page.
http://sat.collegeboard.com/practice/sat-question-of-the-day
These are SAT questions from real tests. For those who don't know, SATs are the tests that you take at 18 years old that 'help' determine which university you enter. What I want to show you is how the questions they ask are very similar to the types of language skills we are learning. There is only one multiple choice question each day. Try doing one each day for fun. You might be surprised how many you can get correct. You might need to refresh the page once you open the link...
Don't worry...I got the first one wrong 3 times!
http://sat.collegeboard.com/practice/sat-question-of-the-day
Don't worry...I got the first one wrong 3 times!
Simple Sentences
Links to Ms. Graham's Science H/W
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Again ...Kudos to Scott and Austin. F for their 100% scores on the first spelling test and correct bonus question.
Well done to Andrew and Lindsey for your 100% scores
It is clear that some of you are still confused about appositives. I have an extra worksheet on this topic if you would like a little more practice. Please come and see me tomorrow if you would like one for extra credit.
It is VITAL that you spend a few minutes thinking about the 'simple sentences' techniques we introduced in class today. Maybe you can use a few of them to tell me your opinions about the 'traits' of effective writing. Plus points for any notable contributions. Make sure you are comfortable with the terms
'participle phrase' and 'infinitives' and how they are used to open sentences.
From today's session....
Always avoid starting sentences with these words
There is/are -There was/were - Then – And – Because
Pronouns (I We They etc.)
Start sentences instead with:
Technique 1: Starting with a Noun
Mary played tennis with her friends. OR The boys enjoyed the food.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 2: Starting with an Adjective
Beautiful trees line both sides of the road. OR An incessant noise droned in the background.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 3: Start with an Adverb + Comma
Gradually, the incessant noise began to diminish. OR Slowly, the children headed out to recess.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 4: Start with a Verb (known as a participle phrase) verb + ing + noun
Working with their partners, the students finished the assignment.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 5: Starting with an Infinitive (to + verb)
To live in Hawaii is the dream of my life. OR To help others is a noble occupation.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 6: ‘Doubles and Triples’
Your sentences will be descriptive from now on...won't they?
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
Again ...Kudos to Scott and Austin. F for their 100% scores on the first spelling test and correct bonus question.
Well done to Andrew and Lindsey for your 100% scores
It is clear that some of you are still confused about appositives. I have an extra worksheet on this topic if you would like a little more practice. Please come and see me tomorrow if you would like one for extra credit.
It is VITAL that you spend a few minutes thinking about the 'simple sentences' techniques we introduced in class today. Maybe you can use a few of them to tell me your opinions about the 'traits' of effective writing. Plus points for any notable contributions. Make sure you are comfortable with the terms
'participle phrase' and 'infinitives' and how they are used to open sentences.
From today's session....
Always avoid starting sentences with these words
There is/are -There was/were - Then – And – Because
Pronouns (I We They etc.)
Start sentences instead with:
Technique 1: Starting with a Noun
Mary played tennis with her friends. OR The boys enjoyed the food.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 2: Starting with an Adjective
Beautiful trees line both sides of the road. OR An incessant noise droned in the background.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 3: Start with an Adverb + Comma
Gradually, the incessant noise began to diminish. OR Slowly, the children headed out to recess.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 4: Start with a Verb (known as a participle phrase) verb + ing + noun
Working with their partners, the students finished the assignment.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 5: Starting with an Infinitive (to + verb)
To live in Hawaii is the dream of my life. OR To help others is a noble occupation.
Your example
________________________________________________________________________
Technique 6: ‘Doubles and Triples’
Your sentences will be descriptive from now on...won't they?
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