Nov 19

Today, we did skits to review vocab words. We also did a bell ringer, which was to write ONE 15-word sentence about war. After viewing a picture that showed a man leaning on the Vietnam War Memorial, each student had to write EITHER a 10-15 line poem OR a one page short story that includes THREE vocab words to accompany the pictures. DUE FRIDAY.

Nov 15

First, we completed a review story for vocab unit 10. Then, we peer edited for SENTENCE STRUCTURE (run-ons, fragments, wordiness) and GRAMMAR (sub verb agreement, pronoun antecedent agreement, parallelism). Tuesday is more editing with papers and Unit 10 quiz. Wed is library to type corrections. Thursday is paper due date!

Nov 2

Today we did a bell ringer to review vocabulary unit 8 and took the quiz. Sentences for unit 9 are due tomorrow!