Today was our first DEAR Friday. In many schools, DEAR is an acronym that stands for “Drop Everything And Read.” I have committed to designating at least every other Friday for the remainder of the school year as a DEAR Friday in order to help students reach their independent reading goals. On DEAR Fridays, students [...]
Don’t forget our “Questions of the Day”– an easy way to review for the CRCT and earn Maverick Money!
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After reviewing and discussing the judges’ ratings and commentary for the 5 sample essays we’ve been examining this week, it was time for students to demonstrate their understanding of the four domains of the Georgia Writing Assessment. In class today, students individually rated and gave commentary for a new sample essay. If you [...]
This week, we have worked together in groups to discuss and rate five student essays responding to the following prompt:
Writing Situation
Your class has been given the opportunity to design a brand new television show for children. It could be a news show, a talk show, a game show, a cartoon, or any kind of show [...]
In addition to working on this week’s DGP and finishing the essay rating activity from last Friday, students had the opportunity to view a video previewing some of the titles available at the Scholastic Book Fair at McClure this week. We heard book talks for the books listed below:
The Big Field by Mike Lupica
Confetti Girl [...]
Today after turning in all work related to the Current Issues Project, students began a simulation of the Georgia Writing Assessment. Students will finish the practice writing assessment tomorrow in class.
“Georgia’s performance-based writing assessments are administered to students in grades three, five, eight, and eleven. Student writing samples are evaluated on an analytic scoring system [...]
Today we traded revised drafts and did some proofreading for one another, focusing on those pesky pcits (pcit = parenthetical citation). Click HERE to download the PowerPoint we used to practice finding common errors with parenthetical citations. Click HERE for a good resource to help with parenthetical citations.
IMPORTANT: If you received a zero because you [...]
Today in class we discussed what we would expect a person to know about a book if he or she had truly read the book: characters (major and minor); setting; plot details; theme or moral; the most exciting parts; whether or not they liked the book; etc. We then applied this to our independent [...]
In class today, students traded rough drafts and completed an analysis of their partner’s essay. Students who did not have their rough draft in class OR who are new to AC language arts completed the analysis using the sample essay (”The Cat’s Out of the Bag!”).
If you were absent today (Wednesday 1/13/10), you need to [...]
Congratulations to the following winners of our class spelling bees:
Anna S.
Josi E.
Alicia. C.
Zach R.
In homeroom this morning we had run-off for our 2 representatives to the school bee tomorrow, and they are: Alicia and Josi! Good luck!
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