WEDNESDAY: After completing Wednesday and Thursday's DGP, the students were assigned a partner to begin the informational and media reading practice we will do with our "Vacation Destinations" unit. Each set of partners was given a copy of a tourism website or a page from a brochure describing their selected destination. They were required to answer CRCT type questions about the web page and the activities offered. They were also required describe the activities they would most like to do and generate ideas to be included in a travel brochure. Finally, the partners had to analyze the CCSD school calendar for the 2011-2012 school year and again answer CRCT type questions as well as select a travel date abiding by certain travel restrictions.
There are too many resources pertaining to this unit to post to the Blog; however, I would be happy to e-mail an attachment to a student who is absent if the student contacts me and tells me to which country he or she is assigned. Those students who were absent today will need to see me to get the name of their country and partner.
Friday we will have a quiz over sentence types, sentences purposes, clauses, fragments, and participles. Also, the DGP and spelling words are due on Friday.
