Students recived their exam review on May 14th. They should be working on the review periodically. If you have lost your exam review, please to to the important date page to print another.
Tonight, I want the students to take their rough drafts home and read them aloud to someonewho can provide valuable feedback. Students will need to have their rough drafts signed when they come to class tomorrow. Tomorrow students will have 20 minutes to work on thier final product in class, and need to bring the necessary materials.
Tonight students are completing their story maps for their fictional writing piece. The story maps are due tomorrow.
Happy Monday!
Don’t forget to study for your Grammar Test tonight. We went over the reviews in class today! Happy Studying!
There will be a grammar test next Friday over Simple Sentence Steps 1-7. I have added some practice opportunities below for students to work on Steps 4-6. This is especially helpful if you find you are not confident with your mastery of those steps. In the attachment below are practice sentences for those three skills, followed by answer keys for all three. You can print out the attachments and practice, then check your answers with the keys. Don’t forget to use your notes.
There will be a formal review passed out in class on Tuesday.
Both classes will be starting their last novel unit this Friday. Pre-AP students will need to bring their copy of the book to class. Below are the novels that we will begin Friday.
ILA: True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi (Students will check out a classroom copy for which they will be responsible. )
Pre-AP ILA: Tunes for Bears to Dance To, by Robert Cormier
See you Friday!
ILA: Students will be writing a poem tonight. It can be about anything they want it to be regarding topic. It must have two metaphors in it.
Pre-AP ILA: Students will be writing their final draft of the “Big Idea” Metaphor poem and creating questions about their poem with references to inferencing, drawing conclusions, and theme.
ILA: Finish the Final Draft of your Compare & Contrast Essay. (If you decide to type your final draft, please use 12 point in one of the following fonts: Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Tempus Sans.)
Pre-AP: The students were asked to write a poem with a big metaphor concept in which myself and their peers would have to inference and draw conclusions. The following are the requirements that they wrote down in class today:
There is no homework for both classes. (The only exception would be if students did not finish today’s classwork due to previous absense.)
Have a great weekend!!
The Selected TAKS Reading Practice Test has been postponed one day for my ILA class. We did not yet finish the TAKS analysis that we must finish prior to the test. We will be finishing it tomorrow in class and their test will be Wednesday and Thursday.
