September 16, 2009

Homework:
Choosing the Right Word unit 1
(This will be graded, so they should all be correct!)

Today:
Daily Drill
I checked the vocabulary hwk
We drew pictionaries on the board and tried to guess them.
I showed the students how I want them to highlight the context clues in the Choosing the Right Word activity in the vocab.
I explained a writing topic. For this essay option, they are going to write a narrative about their first day of 7th grade. In Reading, they read "Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto. We discussed what events to include and what events to exclude. they should discuss events that move the main idea forward. You can't include everything you did for the whole day!

We will talk more about this soon. They will have time to write in class Thursday during SSW time.