Wednesday

First of all, a BIG thank you to the ladies and gentleman (Devyn) who helped tidy up our classroom after school today. I hosted the faculty meeting after school and needed a helping hand to get ready. I appreciated all the hard workers! I hope the hot cocoa payment hit the spot :c)

7th grade classes--Today we continued to review prepositional hot spots, including dangling prepositions and infinitive phrases. Students seem to be getting the hang of these grammatical concepts, and I'm impressed with their "sentence dissecting" abilities. Coming soon...helping verb villages! Get ready to think outside the box.

Students also received the requirements for their historical fiction book talks. Students should have a detailed checklist for this writing assignment in their LA binders. Hint, hint: Make friends with Mr. (or Ms.) Sticky Note while you read.

8th grade classess--Today I tricked my students into writing the lead paragraphs of their compare and contrast essays about the two Johns. We completed a Quick Write, pretending we were coal miners heading down to the mine at the start of our shift. Students wrote some wonderfully descriptive, thoughtful paragraphs, and then we looked at how we could tag on a thesis statement to connect to the body of the essay, which we'd been writing over the last week or so. Really impressive body of work today, folks!

All classes--Friday's RRJ entries x2. Visualizing, Questioning, or Determining Important Ideas.

Have a great evening.

Fondly,
Mrs. V~