WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: After completing the warm-up at the beginning of the class period, students will continue revising sentences to include vivid verbs and descriptive adjectives. Over the next two days, we will take it to the next level by revising entire sentences to focus on the action and create mental images. This will lead nicely to our lessons next week pertaining to active vs. passive writing. (ELA8W2.f)
Additionally, we are adding to our review of compound and complex sentences by analyzing compound-complex sentences. There will be a quiz over this material on Friday. The students will be expected to write five sentences: Two compound sentences (one using a semi-colon), two complex sentences (one with a dependent clause first and one with an independent clause first), and one compound-complex sentence. (ELA8C1.b & e)
Today I collected the summary paragraph with its second reflective paragraph attached. Many students did not have this assignment. As a reminder, my policy for late work is it can be turned-in one day late for 50% credit.
HOMEWORK: On Thursday, the students will be given a Vivid Word Upgrade practice sheet. They will pick five of the ten sentences to revise. This is due Friday when they arrive in class.
Independent reading activities are due Tuesday, September 6. Please see early Blog postings for the list of activities.
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FRIDAY: There will be a substitute in the class Friday. Students will turn-in their homework, take a sentence types quiz, and read their independent novels. Students who do not bring a novel will continue to work on analyzing and writing various sentence types. A student's poor behavior for a substitute results in the loss of ten points on the behavior card.
