Thursday

7th grade--Students responded to the following Quick...Write! prompt: If you were alone in your house and had only a few minutes to hide from home invaders, where would you hide? Describe the best hidign place in your house.


After students wrote for 7 minutes, I asked them to meet with someone they trusted and share what they wrote. We then focused on how easy it was to stray from the prompt and list the things we'd do rather than a description of the place we'd hide.

After that students refreshed their memories with prepositions. Mr. Frog and his log reappeared to help us cement our understanding of prepositions. We also looked at examples of prepositional poetry to see how poets use prepositions to help them craft their poems.


8th grade--Students completed the same assignment for Quick...Write! as the 7th grade.

After this we reexamined ballads. Today we read/viewed "Candle in the Wind 1997" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." We analyzed the ballads, looking for characteristics OF ballads.

Agenda: 2 Questioning RRJ entries due Friday. 20 points possible.