Posts Tagged ‘revising’

Final Group Work

We completed the final day of group work for the memoir today. We’ll be spending two more days polishing it up, and then turn it in Monday.
English I began verbs today. We’ll finish up tomorrow, testing willing.
The testing in question is the Explore test. We’ll be taking that test Thursday and Friday.
Homework

First and seventh periods: [...]

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Book Fair

All classes finished up working with Mrs. Weaver-James regarding the PASS writing test that is coming up 11 March and then we went to the book fair.
Homework

First period: make sure you’ve read through chapter 8 of The Giver.
Second period: finish Lord of the Flies.

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PASS Overview

Mrs.Weaver-James, an instructional coach at Hughes, was a guest teacher in all classes today, giving students some important information about the upcoming PASS test.
Tomorrow, we’ll be going to the book fair, with Mrs. Weaver-James taking the few minutes of class time beforehand to finish up what we started.
Homework
None.

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Editing Maslow

First, fourth, and sixth periods used the sentence revision techniques we’ve worked on during the week to revise their persuasive essay on capital punishment. Additionally, students began double-checking that they’d supplied three arguments in their papers, and that two of the argument methods (from authority, reason, emotion, etc) are represented.
Second period began Lord of the [...]

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Discussion and Editing

First period did some small group work to complete the mini-unit of sentence revision that we’ve been working on this week. We’ll be applying all we’ve learned to our essays on capital punishment tomorrow.
Second period had a guest teacher, and we wrapped up Romeo and Juliet. I was not anticipating the activity to last the [...]

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Linguistic Change and Drafting

First period worked on revising their initial memoir drafts. We looked for content holes and/or loaded content–places where the writer didn’t give as much detail as he/she could.
Second period discussed the use of a socially offensive word in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Fourth and sixth periods began the first drafts of their memoirs, crafting thesis statements [...]

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