--Please do the following:
- place your "marked up" original copy of the Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay in the black basket on the front table
- take out your free reading book
- obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. Back at your desk, log in, log in to Membean, and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
S. the C.
--FYI: Your improved Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay was due via email before 11:59 PM last night (Thursday, 12/5).
- policy review
Writing Workshop Preparation #1 -- Short Story "Unit"--End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--Please take out your notebook, date the page, and label this section of your notes "Elevating Diction." Then, as per my MODELING on the SMART Board, complete the task set forth below:
- Look at the words posted on the Membean Word Wall. Which ones make you "think" about "The Masque of the Red Death" in some way?
- Write at least three different sentences about your associations. Be prepared to share your sentences with your group during Writing Workshop.
Transition
--Draw a line under your last section of notes. Then, label the next section "RE-READING Strategies for Common Errors."
--Brooke B./Nadia B.: Please drop the grammar hammer!Grammar Hammer Review/Writing Workshop Preparation #2 -- RE-READING Strategies for Common Errors
--quick-review RE-READING strategies for both comma usage with introductory elements/transitions and comma usage with FANBOYS
- Do your best to capture the notes!
--finish group-typing your response (if you have not already done so)
--discuss the Membean words about which you wrote earlier in the block
- Can you deftly incorporate at least one word in your writing piece? Please aim to do so (without, of course, overdoing it!)
- Share your group's Google Doc with me.
- MODEL
- Return the Chromebooks.
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--If you earned the opportunity for Marking Period 2 Membean credit recovery, you must stay after school TODAY to calculate your partial credit!
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses or trained for a total of 45 minutes over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/12. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses or trained for a total of 45 minutes over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/12. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--If you have not yet selected your next free reading book, consider doing so at some point between now and the end of next week. Next week, I will do my best to help get the "right" book in your possession. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
- "There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book" (Frank Serafini, author of The Reading Workshop).
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
