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November 19, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Today the students had to take a district wide assessment. The assessment had the students take a “Close and Critical” look at a piece of informational text. They were to apply the R.A.T.E. method to this text then develop a constructed response on “What the text says?’, “How the text […]

November 18, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Students worked on the counterargument paragraph and conclusion paragraph of their argumentative essay. At this point the students should have the rough draft of their essay completed. They were also given vocabulary words to define and draw an example of for the next story they are going to read in […]

November 15, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Students did a peer edit of their introductions for their argumentative essay. We had to recap what should be included in the introduction to make it more clear. Some of the students moved on to work on their body paragraph one and two. Many students took the opportunity to receive […]

November 14, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Today the students worked on the different parts of an introduction for their argumentative essay. We went through a group activity that designated each table to write a Lead, Background information, and then a Thesis. Students were assigned to each section and then as a group put each part together […]

NOV. 13

Celebrities of the Day! Today we worked on discussing and practicing author’s purpose. We did a class review and power point on author’s purpose, and then the students completed a gallery walk with different pieces of writing. They had to distinguish what the purpose was for the writing and then give textual evidence to support […]

November 12, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Today the students reported their findings from the article entitled “School Uniforms: Awesome – or Awful?” to support both sides of the argument. We filled out a graphic organizer to distinguish between textual evidence that support either Yes for Uniforms or No for Uniforms. We introduced what a counterargument for […]

November 11, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Today the students were given back their graded assignments from last week. Many of them need to remember to put their name on their work! This will become an issue with their grade in the future. They also received their graded quiz from Friday. This was put in their portfolio […]

November 8, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Today the students took a quiz on the Stages of the Plot and “The School Play”. After this we engaged in a brainstorming activity for the argumentative essay they will begin next week. This brainstorming activity gave them seven different scenarios and had them take a stand for each one […]

November 7, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Today the students reviewed “The School Play” and Stages of the Plot of their quiz tomorrow. They also began a process for understanding a text entitled “Close and Critical” reading. This process will be used toward other stories as well. It is an in depth way for students to monitor […]

November 6, 2013

Celebrities of the Day!!! Student had a interactive activity on the Google ChromeBooks to complete today. The activity entitled “Essay Map” gave the students the ability to apply the organization skills they received notes for on Monday about five paragraph essay writing. The online activity sorted their thoughts for a five paragraph essay in […]