Carlton: Today students continued to work on their rough draft of the narrative. We practiced revision strategies using the MESS strategies.
HW:
- If your rough draft was not complete today, finish it tonight. Remember you should have 3 paragraphs: introduction, body and conclusion. See my example below.
- When your rough draft is complete, practice the slotting strategy by circling garbage words and less descriptive words in your rough draft and replacing them with more vivid words. Use your blue writing sheets and the thesaurus to help you with this!
- Example: The bird sang a happy song. Circle bird, happy and song and improve the sentence. The scarlet cardinal whistled a joyful tune.
- Download Ms. Carlton narrative example revised
Attard/Carlton: The students worked on their "Thriller" grammar and took a pop quiz on the stories we read yesterday.
Johnson/Carlton: We reviewed the requirements for the thesis statement project and watched the SAT 7 vocab. video.
HW: Thesis statement project and SAT 7 cards and quiz will be due November 11.
Project: Students were given a packet of 125 writing topics today. They should choose 100 of these and develop a clear thesis statement. They may also choose to select 50 of the more controversial topics and create a thesis statement for both sides of the argument. Students will have approximately 10 minutes at the beginning of each class period to work on this assignment. Project is due November 11.
