August 30, 2010

 August 30, 2010

Hand in disclosure signatures and VIP forms if you have them ready to return.  They are due by next time.
Don't forget your composition books.

1. Bell-Ringer: Responding to  poem/ writing about summer 
2. See the class blog. 
3. Students continue to share their "headlines."
4. Receive the Me-Bag Assignment.  . . .
5.  The Writing Process -- What is it?  What is yours? (circles?)

Next time:

PREWRITING is what you do to get ready to write (draft).
We use PREWRITING to
-- Gather Ideas and Details
-- Focus (narrow) the topic
-- Decide on a tentative organization for the piece
Much of PREWRITING happens before we start to draft (actually write it down), but we often go back to PREWRITING activities when we need more ideas and details, or need more focus, or decide to modify the organization.

August 26, 2010

August 26, 2010
Students wrote about how they feel about the alphabet, while munching on Alpha-Bits cereal.
If the student has a composition book, this should go on the third page.

Students received their disclosure documents and took an open-document quiz.   The signature sheet is due September 1.

Students wrote headlines about their own lives, and we began sharing the stories of our headlines.