First and fourth periods worked on improving their sentence variety for the upcoming PASS test. We looked at a handout on various sentence types that we will be incorporating into our writing now. Second and seventh periods worked on commonly confused words and...
First and sixth periods worked on a short writing workshop, creating complex sentences in a first step to increasing sentence variety in our writing. Some of their notes are available here. Second and fourth periods began a new unit on the short story. We’ll be...
First and sixth periods continued working on their memoirs, practicing adding sensory details to their writing. There were some truly amazing examples in class of using the senses to show rather than tell. We’ll be finishing up the memoir late next week or early...
First and sixth period worked on adding sensory details to writing. We looked at two passages from the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings excerpt (the description of Mrs. Flowers’s living room and the description of eating the cookie Mrs. Flowers had baked) that...
First period, having a choice for the day’s writing workshop mini-lesson, decided to continue working on sentence variety Second and sixth periods had a quiz on last night’s reading. We then went over the project: I introduced the Double-sided Journal...
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