Today was our library day in Language Arts. At this point, all students should be reading their fourth good-fit book for the year.
After our library time, we began talking about the 6+1 Traits of writing and how we can use them to help improve our writing. Today we discussed ideas, organization, and voice.
The students also began writing their first essay of the year. We will be writing an argumentative essay. The students were given the choice between four topics based on CERs they have written in class. We began planning out our body paragraphs today. If students did not finish planning the body paragraphs, this was assigned as homework. For extra credit, the students can add more than one piece of evidence per body paragraph. This is NOT the rough draft. We are using this planning page to gather and organize our ideas.
Have a great evening!
Homework:
- Read for 20 minutes
- Argumentative Body Paragraph Planning due Tomorrow
- Read Theory due Friday
- Moby Max: Verbs due Friday, December 21st