Good Morning!

I hope you all had a great weekend! We will be starting with our Prose Fiction Terms Quiz.

*Prose Fiction Terms Quiz

-We will be continuing to work on our persuasive paragraphs on “Sam the Athlete”.  On Friday, we did a peer edit review to get feedback on our paragraphs.  Please have your paragraphs ready to hand in for Tuesday February 11th, 2020.  They should be printed off on Paper and should be double spaced…

-Assessment/rubric for your paragraph

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-Read the Short Story “House” aloud as a class. 

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-Complete a “Short Story Summary Sheet” for this short story

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Good Morning,

*Reminder:  You will have a “prose fiction terms quiz” on Monday…please review the terms.

Friday Writes:  we will spend time each Friday writing.  This writing will mostly be focused on ‘compositions’.  This is an opportunity for you to be creative, reflective and critical with your own writing.

Narrative Writing

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Topics:

*The biggest misunderstanding

*The difficult decision

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Good Morning,

Yesterday, you started on the paragraph writing template on the short story “Sam the Athlete”. Today I would like you to take your outlines and write them into a rough draft.  We will go through incorporating quotes, style and transitional expressions.

paragraph-writing-template

transitional-expressions

style

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Good Afternoon,

*Today we will start “No Red Ink”.  It is a site that works with grammar and writing based on your pop culture interests.

Yesterday, we did a Peer Edit Review of our persuasive paragraphs on “Identities”, and worked on a graphic organizer applying the story elements to the short story “Long Long After School”.

Your good copies will be due on Thursday February 6th, 2020

*Please print off your paragraph and submit on paper (sorry I find it is easier on my old eyes to mark on paper).

*I would also like you to post this on your Edublog.  Please Tag the post with

NelsonIdentities2020SpringC

NelsonIdentities2020SpringD

*Did we have time yesterday to finish our  graphic organizer on “Long Long After School.”

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*Ms. Trethway and Wes:  Venn Diagram

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-We will go over the Venn Diagram for Wes and Ms. Trethway.

-“A Teachers’ Rewards” –read aloud.

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Good Morning,

Reminders:  Prose Fiction Terms Quiz on Monday February 10th, 2019

No Red Ink:  You will get a username and password to log into No Red Ink.  You will be navigated to put in your pop culture interests…You will then have an assignment to work on….fragments.

Yesterday, we worked on the “Yes/No Chart” and then moved into the short story summary of the short story “Sam The Athlete”.

*Did you have a chance to finish the short story summary?  If not, please make sure it is complete for Thursday.

“Should Sam have continued to wear the skirt?”

* Yes/No Chart

4.  Persuasive paragraphs:  We will be writing a paragraph in response to the above question.

paragraph-writing-template

transitional-expressions

style

Good Afternoon,

Yesterday, we worked on our rough drafts for our paragraph on “Identies”.  We will do a peer edit of this draft.

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*Find Examples of ‘Irony’

Complete the document below as a group on office 365:

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Complete the document below as a group on office 365:

How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike?  Venn Diagram:  Synthesis

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Good Morning,

We started to read the short story “Sam the Athlete” and can finish reading today.

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5.  Please open the document below:

sam-the-athlete-yes-no-chart

1. Short story summary:  this chart will guide you through applying the short story terms to the short story “Sam The Athlete”.

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Good Morning,

On Friday, we worked on the paragraph template for the short story “Identities”.

I forgot to do the below on Friday:

What are some examples of lenses throughout “Identities”?  Share aloud

The template that should be complete:

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Some resources I want you to think of as you transform your paragraph template into a rough draft:

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You will have time to write your rough draft of your paragraph on “Identities”.

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*Find Examples of ‘Irony’

Complete the document below as a group on office 365:

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Complete the document below as a group on office 365:

How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike?  Venn Diagram:  Synthesis

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