In Language Arts today the students finished peer editing their rough drafts. Final drafts will be due on Friday. When I collect the final draft, I will also be collecting the rough draft, planning page, and peer editing sheet. The essay is to be typed on the computer. It should be in 12 point Times New Roman OR 11 point Arial (the fonts automatically set by Word and Google Docs). The essay needs to be double spaced. At the top of the paper, the students should include their first and last name, their block number, and the date. They should also create their own title before they type. It is alright to make the title bolded and increase the font size to 14 or 16. I will be giving about fifteen minutes in class tomorrow to set this up and start typing.
The students also continued to learn about genres today by reviewing subgenres of non-fiction. This will be the focus of the CER response on One-Pager Number Four. I will pass out the directions for this assignment tomorrow during class and post the directions to the blog too.
Lastly, the students practiced identifying helping, linking, and action verbs in sentences. They will be having a grammar quiz next Thursday, December 20th. Here are the topics the quiz will cover:
- Nouns
- Common and Proper
- Concrete and Abstract
- Possessives
- Singular and Plural
- Verbs
- Action, Linking, and Helping
- Infinitives, Past, Present Participles, and Past Participles
- Interjections
Have a great evening and don’t forget tomorrow is a late start day!
Homework:
- Read for 20 minutes
- Read Theory due Friday
- Argumentative Essay Final Draft due Friday
- Nouns, Verbs, and Interjections Quiz NEXT Thursday
- Moby Max: Verbs and Interjections due NEXT Friday
- One-Pagers Three and Four due Friday, January 11th