Targets for Today:
Write a variety of things!
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Scribbles: Brady Pryor and Christina McMurray Brady's Prompt: Appointment Clock Pairs
Christina's Prompt: Christina, bring it next time, please. Appointment Clock Pairs Next time: January 27 -- Tristan Diamond and Ella Smith January 31: Lilly Spencer and Jayden Fitzgarrald 2. Conventions lesson -- Revising and Editing Make needed corrections on the Splash Mountain Essay.
the time we went two splash mountain
We drove to california and went to disneyland we got
our tickets and went in. We got on splash mountain I felt
nervous. When the ride started up I got really nervous. I could
here people screaming. I was really really really scared, but
soon it was over. i felt closer to my dad because of that.
After that we went and ate hamburgers. I ate alot of fries to.
I will never forget that trip!!!!!!!
Compare. Discuss. Corrections for "Splash Mountain" Then --- Look at Revision and Editing: Taking Notes: Copy these into your composition book under "Editing Reminders for Me." ARMS [Use your ARMS to Revise] Add Remove Move around Substitute A.R.M.S. Revision Strategy Why Proofread and Edit?
-- our writing will be read.
-- we'll be taken seriously.
-- we won't appear ignorant or arrogant.
SMILES [Use your SMILES to Edit Your Work.] Sentences -- Make sure each sentence has a subject and an action -- a verb. Marks -- End each sentence with a punctuation mark. Indents -- Indent each new paragraph. Letters -- Start each sentence with a capital letter. Editor -- Use any editing program available, and check your own spelling, etc. (Spelling -- Double-check for the words you tend to misspell.) In your composition book under "Editing Reminders for Me" take notes on this discussion: Creating your own proofreading list in your composition book under "Editing Reminders for Me." Use a clean, complete page. |
______________'s Proofreading List
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More notes:
Titles:
Capitalize the first, last, and important words in a title.
Don't capitalize articles (a, an, the), conjunctions (and, so, but. . . .), or prepositions (of, in, with, to. . . .) unless they come at the end or beginning of the title.
The important words carry meaning: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjective.
Titles: Try correctly capitalizing these titles before you check them.
1. between a rock and a hard place
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
2. tomorrow when the war began
Tomorrow When the War Began
3. the one I've been waiting for
The One I've Been Waiting For
Now make up one of your own and write it out without capital letters.
Trade with another student to correct it.
If You Were Absent:
See above for what we did. Set up your composition book if you haven't.
Write to the Scribble prompt. That goes in your composition book under Scribbles. Edit the "Splash Mountain" piece. Take notes as directed above. Keep working on your assignments for About Me - Collage.doc. |
Vocabulary:
Prewriting: The things you do to get ready to write: gathering ideas, selecting what you will write about, selecting details, organizing.
Drafting: The drafting phase of the writing process entails the actual composing/writing of the text.
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