1st trimester – Day 33
- Pick up this week’s vocabulary words (Lesson 4: elude, fallow, blight…) – reviewed pronunciations
- Collect homework: HOW TO poem
- WARMUP: List the grammatical errors from a paragraph of Scarlet Ibis – 32 errors total
Pretend someone is unfamiliar with the concept of the “knot of cruelty” that we discussed in “The Scarlet Ibis.” Give them a taste of what it is and how it is present in one of the other short stories that we have read in this class (“The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Interlopers,” “The Most Dangerous Game”).
At our desks, we graded two papers “The Redwoods” (gave it a letter grade and told why) and “Mouse Alert” – we answered the following 3 questions for the second paper:
1. What reactions do you have to the paper?
2. What letter grade to you give it? (explain why)
3. List 2 questions you would like to ask the writer.
Next, we graded each other’s journal from today using the same 3 questions as above
SHOW AND TELL: Discuss the difference between tell statements and show statements in writing – “It was a really exciting and fun day,” and “Homework is boring.”
- How do you show exciting? fun? boring?
- Modeled a show-me writing paragraph on the same topic
Homework:
1. Change the “tell” statement “My room was a mess” into a “show” PARAGRAPH.
2. Bring in a non-fiction article of someone making a good choice.
3. Study for Friday’s vocabulary test (Lesson 4: elude, fallow, blight…)
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