H/W

All Classes - All BOOK CLUB books RETURNED TUESDAY - Finish your book (Trouble groups have until Wed.)

You must bring a draft of your Book Club drawing for tomorrow's class. (G/H - For Wednesday)
See image below as an example
 Drawings/diagrams will be turned into this file (photographs of a composition notebook page) by Wednesday.


Do some grammar exercises for practice. New links added Practice Questions  (G/H Follow Ms. Beltinck's instructions for your grammar practice. You are welcome to do these links if you choose as you will take the same test.)

Assessment Week

This week you will do a variety of difference assessments. The schedule is below:

Monday: 1st Book Club Feedback: What is the novel teaching you about the social issue(s) woven into the plot?  This will be  assessed in the form of a drawing that captures your thinking about your story. Drawings/diagrams will be turned into this file (photographs of a composition notebook page) by Tuesday. In Tuesday's class, you will explain your drawing to me in a 1:1 conference.   - We will start this in class on Monday.

Tuesday: Begin second book clubs

Wednesday/Thursday:  (C/D& E/F class only.) Turn in your grammar Sentence Fluency Memory tool. This can take any form you choose. You will explain your memory tool in a 1:1 conference with me. Be ready for Wednesday, some of you will conference with me  Thursday.

Thursday: Grammar Sentence Fluency Test. This will be a 40 question multiple choice assessment on your knowledge of simple, compound, complex sentences. You will also have to be able to spot RUN-ON sentences as well (Fused sentences and Comma Splices).
Practice Questions

Friday: Turn in a realistic fiction written scene that captures a social issue. We will write another one of these this week and you will choose one scene to turn in for a grade on Friday. You will have to write an author's note explaining any craft and structure moves you make. e.g. how you develop the social issue through the scene or how you have shown who has the power in the scene.

Friday: Membean Test: 50 words. Will you have your 80minutes?

Writing Scenes that Show a Social Issue

Lesson Recap

H/W Book Club books need to be finished by Monday.

Do grammar practice exercises from this week's earlier blog post.

All Classes: You should have at least 15 lines of your scene written by next Tuesday 

Book Club Conversations

Lesson Recap: Which technique will you use?

Updated Links

http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm

compound and complex sentences

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073123587/student_view0/chapter6/complex_sentences_exercise.html

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/language_arts/sentence_types/quiz1848.html  

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz2/quizzes-to-fix/sentence_types_quiz.html

https://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr07/page_build.cfm?id=quiz&ch=8

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511994/student_view0/brush_up/part_i-grammar2/grammar_exercise_04.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/cw-senttype.html

Fused and Comma Splice

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/runons_quiz.htm

https://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/run-ons_ex1.htm

http://wps.prenhall.com/chet_smith_english_10/108/27805/7118326.cw/content/index.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/299540.html (ignore question 13 and 16)

http://www.quia.com/rr/126726.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/815621.html?AP_rand=60951870

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