Week of 03/09/15 - 03/13/15
Mon 03/09/15
Students received back their essays for the Anthem Essay Contest. We went over the requirements for the essay and will continue revising them before submitting them to be judged.
HOMEWORK: Begin Unit 8 Week 3 vocab, due Friday! Unit 8 Test Friday!
HOMEWORK: Begin Unit 8 Week 3 vocab, due Friday! Unit 8 Test Friday!
Tues 03/10/15
Students worked on editing and revising their Anthem essays. Students reviewed the MINTS rules for capitalization:
M - Months and Moms
I - Pronoun I
N - Names
T - Titles
S - Start of every sentence
Students then used different colored markers to mark up things they did correctly on their essays.
Red – Draw an arrow where each paragraph is indented.
Orange – Underline your MINTS.
Yellow – Circle all of the end punctuation marks.
Green – Underline your transition words, which should be at the beginning of each paragraph.
Blue – Circle words that might be spelled incorrectly.
Purple – Underline strong vocabulary words. Try for two in each paragraph.
Pink – Circle all contractions and separate them.
HOMEWORK: Continue Unit 8 Week 3 vocab, due Friday. Unit 8 Test Friday!
M - Months and Moms
I - Pronoun I
N - Names
T - Titles
S - Start of every sentence
Students then used different colored markers to mark up things they did correctly on their essays.
Red – Draw an arrow where each paragraph is indented.
Orange – Underline your MINTS.
Yellow – Circle all of the end punctuation marks.
Green – Underline your transition words, which should be at the beginning of each paragraph.
Blue – Circle words that might be spelled incorrectly.
Purple – Underline strong vocabulary words. Try for two in each paragraph.
Pink – Circle all contractions and separate them.
HOMEWORK: Continue Unit 8 Week 3 vocab, due Friday. Unit 8 Test Friday!
Wed 03/11/15
Students began writing their second draft of their Anthem essay. Students used the revised plan below to add elaboration to their essays. Final word count must be between 600-1200 words.
HOMEWORK: Continue Unit 8 Week 3 vocab, due Friday. Unit 8 test Friday.
HOMEWORK: Continue Unit 8 Week 3 vocab, due Friday. Unit 8 test Friday.
Thurs 03/12/15
Students completed their vocabulary centers in class to study for their test tomorrow.
HOMEWORK: If your centers were not completed in class, click HERE to complete them. Unit 8 Week 3 vocab is due tomorrow! Unit 8 Test tomorrow!
HOMEWORK: If your centers were not completed in class, click HERE to complete them. Unit 8 Week 3 vocab is due tomorrow! Unit 8 Test tomorrow!
Fri 03/13/15
Students took their Unit 8 vocabulary test after watching the rap video.
HOMEWORK: Enjoy your weekend!
HOMEWORK: Enjoy your weekend!