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Wed 12 and Thurs 13 March

What we did:

  • Finished worksheet/went over worksheet on order of adjectives from Tuesday
  • Worked on “American Gothic” stories
  • Worksheet on coordinate vs cumulative adjectives
  • Read up to and including chapter 4 of “Shipwreck. . .”

Homework: Read for 20 minutes

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Monday 10 March

What we did:

  • Brainstormed wants vs needs in a bell ringer
  • discussed
  • handed out book, “Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World”
  • Read first chapter
  • spent about 20 minutes finishing “Zoo” essay. “Zoo” essay will be graded tomorrow.
  • When finished with “Zoo” essay students began working on “Narrative” essay based on Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” painting.

Homework:

  • Read for 20 minutes
  • finish “Zoo” essay if you need to
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Friday 7 March

What we did yesterday and today:

  • Worked on “Zoos = Yes or No?” essay and “American Gothic Narrative” essay on UtahWrite.com
  • Collected reading logs (Friday)

Homework:

  • Read for 20 minutes
  • Both essays must have a score between 25 and 30 before you are “finished”

Revision ideas to help improve your score:

  • Transitions
  • Sentence types
  • quotations!!
  • “Diamond” words
  • Add details to each paragraph
  • Add paragraphs
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Wed 5 Mar

What we did today:

  • Corrected quizzes
  • Lesson on coordinating vs cumulative adjectives and associated comma rules

Homework

  • read for 20 minutes
  • finish WS on adjectives
  • Zoo essay will be due on Friday

*I missed half of Monday and all of Tuesday because of the flu. On those days, students took the redundancy quiz and  worked on the “Zoos: Yes or No?” essay.

 

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Fri 28

What we did:

  • Worksheet #2 on redundancy (not period 6)
  • Period 6: quiz on redundancy

Homework:

  • Read for 20 minutes
  • Quiz on Monday! (not for 6th period)
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Thurs. 27 Feb

Today we:

  • Finished redundancy worksheet #1 and #2 (6th period also finished #3)
  • Reviewed the close reading assignment
  • reviewed several of the redundancy worksheets
  • Caught up with missing assignments and worked on poems and pictures to submit to the Dr. Suess contest

Homework:

  • read for 20 minutes
  • reading log will be reported tomorrow!
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Tues 2/25

  • Today we worked on the “Zoos = Yes or No?” Essay
  • Goal score: 25 or above on Utah Write
  • Students who finished the “Zoos” essay started the Narrative essay on the “American Gothic” painting

Homework:

  • Read for 20 minutes
  • Catch up on missing work