The project due date has been moved to Monday 24 October. Click here to view and vote on the Odyssey rubric.
Archive
What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Assessing Sources, Starting Afresh, and Propaganda
First and sixth continued assessing online sources and began researching for their persuasive writing topic. Second and fourth periods began a lightning quick unit covering propaganda and letter...
Donaldson, Research, and Plot
First and second periods were spent at the Donaldson Career Center. Students had an opportunity to see some of the courses offered and talk with current students. Fourth period worked on the Odyssey...
Appositives, Evaluating Sources, and the Plot
First and sixth periods worked on evaluating web sources as we move the the research phase of our unit on persuasive writing. We'll be spending a bit more time in the lab this week, researching our...
Teacher Workday
Today was a teacher work day. We did some planning, graded some papers, and updated this web site out of habit...
Evaluations
First and sixth periods evaluated their reader's journals and reviewed a bit for the upcoming research and persuasive writing project we'll begin Monday. Second and fourth periods really didn't have...
Infinitives, Persuasion, and a Story
First and sixth periods went over yesterday's quiz and continued looking at persuasive techniques in action. Second and fourth periods went through a lightening-quick overview of infinitive phrases....
Gerunds, A Quiz, and Review
First, sixth, and seventh periods all had a stems quiz today. First and sixth continued working on the persuasive techniques unit. Seventh period worked on using our pre-writing from Friday to...
Participles, Persuasive Examples, and Organization
First and sixth periods looked at student work from several years ago to determine how well those students applied persuasive techniques. We worked as a class and then in pairs. Additional pictures...
Presuasion, Narratives, and a Project
First and sixth periods learned about persuasive techniques. Second and sixth periods continued working on the Odyssey project. Today was one of the final days of full in-class preparation. The...
Persuasion, Planning, and Short Stories
First and sixth periods turned in their memoirs and began a new unit today. We're working on persuasion, and we'll be creating a persuasive piece of writing after learning about persuasive...
Final Conferences and Project Planning
First, sixth, and even seventh periods (my seventh grade class) all had a final day of workshop to clear up any last-minute problems before the final turn in of their writing projects on Monday....
