Dragon Writers

Thurs., Feb. 2

In class today we will be completing a webquest about the setting of our novel, The Outsiders.

Click on the link below and follow the directions provided. :)

Flash Back into the World of The Outsiders

You will have an additional night to complete the possessive noun work in your red Grammar workbook on pages 37-39.

Wed., Feb.1

Today the warm-up was the following:

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The student's HW is to complete pages 37-39 covering Possessive Nouns in the Red Grammar Workbook.

We also read the author's introduction and Chapter 1 of The Outsiders to begin our novel study.

This is the handout we gave them to complete as we read the first few chapters:

Download Outsiders Reading Comprehension Questions Handout1

 

Thur., Jan.26

The warm-up for today was the following:

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Then we went to the lab to work on www.myskillstutor.com lessons

username is the student's lunch number

password is cobb

site ID is mccleskey01

Click on Mourdock/Powell LA class

Click on Jan 26

Take each section and repeat until you score a minimum of 80 on each lesson. The quiz at the end will be taken for a grade.

Those of you who lamely did not finish your parts of speech packets need to get those in before the dreaded zero descends upon your grade like a hungry vulture. Especially important is the Mastery Test at the end.

Fri., Jan.20

Open up an internet browser and play these parts of speech games. Don't forget to read this weekend, eat healthy, and be nice to each other!!!

http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

 

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=5&Unit=2&Topic=Nouns&x=35&y=17

 

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=3&Unit=4&Topic=Adjectives+and+Adverbs&x=31&y=8

 

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/gg.cgi?A1=m&A2=0&A3=0&AFUNCT=1&ALEVEL=1

 

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=487&engine=2

 

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/invasion/invasion.html

http://esolhelp.com/Parts-of-Speech-Jeopardy/Parts-of-Speech-Jeopardy.html

http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/usergames/Apr201017/game1272292041.php

Thurs., Jan.19

The warm up for today was the following:

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Then we handed out the Parts of Speech packet:

Download Parts of Speech Review

We began the following group activity in class to complete the packet:

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Tues., Jan.17

Today, the warm-up was the following:

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Then, we took a look at a sample rubric:

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and broke down the following student sample essay

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using this rubric:

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See the following for the State's assessment of this example:

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Then we handed out sample student essays from the DOE website for them to review and see why they were graded the way they were.

Fri., Jan. 13 ooooooo spooky!

Today, we went right back into continuing our practice for next week's writing test. See the following slides to see recommended methods of proceeding:

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Have a great long weekend in honor of MLK, read a little, and do domething good for someone!

Thurs., Jan 12

Today, the warm-up was to, in pairs, create a pre-writing graphic organizer in response to the following prompt:

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Then we handed out a packet with a prompt about goal setting and asked the students to do the same type of pre-writing for this prompt, followed by beginning to draft a rough draft of the essay responding to this prompt. We will continue working on these packets tomorrow.

Wed., Jan.11

Today, the warm-up was the following:

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Then, we handed out the following note-sheet for taking notes in class:

Download GWA Essay Organization Notes

Next, we went through an essay organizing powerpoint while taking notes in complete sentences:

Download GWA Prep Essay Organization

After that, we had them flip over the note sheet to do a graphic organizer with sample writing prompts:

Download GWA Practice Generating Ideas

 

 

Happy New Year!!!

Welcome back to school in 2012!

 

The warm-up for today was the following:

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Next, we did a Style Brushstroke review using the following Powerpoint (see pdf format handout below):

Download Style Brushstroke Review