Friday
Tales #11
all he could see was conans cool audacious exterior and he wanted to be like him
Vocab: audacious
In their journaling notebooks (kept in the classroom), students copied the following and responded:
1. Write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, but use no letters with dots (i, j).
2. In one paragraph, describe a scene from any sport. Use these words somewhere in the paragraph (and highlight them the first time they are used):
bounced, struggled, spied, roared, collapsed, giggled
In addition to the others, P5 responded to the following:
Create a sentence with words that begin with the letters in SENTENCE,in order. In other words, the first words in the sentence should begin with s, the second with e, the third with n, etc.
Homework:
Read
Thursday
Tales #9
poor chainless harold pondered wow th ose dudes are awesome
Vocab: pondered
Tales #10
harold didnt no about conans and his freinds appalling grades
Vocab: appalling
We worked more with declarations and building thesis statements.
Handout: Practice Developing a Thesis Statement
Prompts: 1. Who should pay when a guy and girl go on a date?
2. Are small schools better than large schools?
3. Are schools for only one gender a good idea?
Prompts were answered on the back of the worksheet and the paper was collected.
Homework:
Study vocab, definitions, and spelling
Wednesday
Tales #8
conan the flunking macho dude led alot of the hip dudes at school and him and his sycophants all wore alot of fake gold chains
Vocab: sycophants
We read and discussed an article on how best to set up the introductory paragraph
Students practiced making declarations.
Homework:
Finish Declarations w/s if necessary.
Study vocab, definitions, and spelling
Tuesday
Tales #7
Vocab: virility (= manliness)
Students continued practicing the structure of a persuasive paper, with introduction, three or four body paragraphs, and a conclusion. We organized the paper using a Flee Map (combination of Flow Map and Tree Map).
Homework:
Study vocab, definitions, and spelling
Monday
P3 finished the persuasive outline from last week and turned it in. We worked through part of w/s 27/28; the rest is for homework.
P4 worked on w/s 27/28 and turned it in (Because I Said So)
P5 didn't get w/s 27/28; some groups are still working on their outline and conclusion paragraphs.
Homework:
w/s 28, including the Follow Up.
Study persuasive techniques terms and definitions
