Great effort today on your memoir drafts. Final draft for this piece is due Friday. Please bring a PRINTED copy.
Subjects and Predicates Test is Friday. Look on earlier blog posts for links to practice exercises.
Have you checked out enough books to cover next week? Remember there is no school on Thursday or Friday.
Have a nice evening!
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Maya Angelou
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Character Unit: Push yourself with your literature choices
Drafts of your first memoir piece is due tomorrow. It does not need to be finished, but you should be have a clear direction of where you are going and how you are going to get there.Subjects and predicates package: Due Fri.
Subjects and Predicate assessment: Fri.
Readers
Make sure you have visited the library and have two books to cover the week of CWW and Teacher PD Days.
After CWW - Character Book Clubs
Monday, September 9, 2013
Teaching - Learning - Change
Today was tough for many of you. Another way to look at today's lesson is simply to answer these three questions.
Have you taught the reader something about the topic (teaching) - This is the anecdote
Have you showed that you learned something about yourself (learning) - Reflection
Have you showed the reader that you have changed in some way (Change) - Further reflection
If you are confused - write your story. After you have finished, see if you have included the above aspects in your paper.
Show RESILIENCE - Try hard..then a little harder...
Characteristics to include in your piece
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Write your 3 headlines: It should be 1-2mins long and contain advanced subjects and predicates
subjects and predicates from Russell Buxton on Vimeo.
Have you taught the reader something about the topic (teaching) - This is the anecdote
Have you showed that you learned something about yourself (learning) - Reflection
Have you showed the reader that you have changed in some way (Change) - Further reflection
If you are confused - write your story. After you have finished, see if you have included the above aspects in your paper.
Show RESILIENCE - Try hard..then a little harder...
Characteristics to include in your piece
- Use everything that you know about small moment narratives
- Include 'times shifts' - (would +verb or had+participle)
- Reflect on others feeling not just your own
- Teach the reader something about you; show that the story taught you something; show that you are somehow different or changed because of the story
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Write your 3 headlines: It should be 1-2mins long and contain advanced subjects and predicates
subjects and predicates from Russell Buxton on Vimeo.
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Sunday, September 8, 2013
Reading Responses
Read Teagan's excellent reading response here. She really shows that she is thinking deeply about her character. Grades up on powerschool by end of day today.
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