September 6, 2011

Homework:
Sections 4 and 5 should have turned in vocab money by now.  Not all have.
All sections have to have written 700 words by Friday.  This should not be a stress-inducing assignment.  The goal is to get students to put words onto paper.  Too many times, students think that the words they write are somehow special and they do not want to change and edit them.  Writing 700 words allows students the chance to just get some ideas down on paper.  If they start something and don't finish it, that is OK.  It counts.

Today:
We studied the Gary Soto poem on snow cones a little more.
Students began taking the diagnostic grammar test.
I gave some time for writing in most classes.

(These blog entries are written to give you and idea of what we did in class.  They are not my lesson plans.  Many times I generalize.  For example, one class had writing time because their class was longer, but another class did not.  We ran out of time.)