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Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017

Reach for those 200 pages!!!

Log pages read. Add to Big Idea Book. 

What’s pressing? 

MLA/APA essay — due today at noon via the assignment submission page

Please review the rubric. You have to have 3 sources (Work Cited page) from which you will integrate at least 

1 Direct quote

1 Paraphrase 

1 Summary (the bottom part of your Cornell note)

All need to be cited in-text (sorry Mary). 

Review Activity #4

Other items to consider include:

  1. Prepare Literary Lens reading for next class
  2. Organize your English Journal and update the tracking sheet
  3. Commenting on peer blog posts
  4. Learning Strategy research note, “handout”, 1 point rubric, group evaluation (self)
  5. Study literary elements and devices. 

 

Learning Strategy student “Handouts”:

 

  • Elaboration 
  • Retrieval Practice
  • Dual Coding
  • Interleaving
  • Concrete Examples
  • Spaced Practice

Next step: Fairytale analysis and progress reports

 

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

A Norwegian teacher, Ann Michaelsen, is looking for students to comment on her students’ blogs. She is specifically looking for comments on the students’ blog posts about the American election. If you can, take a few minutes to visit the site. You’ll have to look to the right to find a list of all the student blogs. Not all students have posted on the American election yet, so you may have to check out a few before you find one. Please use the same rules we use for commenting in our class: be polite and respectful and make an attempt to further the conversation in some way.

http://annmichaelsen.com/

And add your comment to your Blog Comment page (and share this page with me via the Assignment Submission page!)

Work period:

Set a personal learning goal.

Literature circle work

  • Reader’s Journal #1, #2, #3
  • Blog #1 and #2
  • Comment on at least two other lit circle posts

Update tracking sheet.

Update Sesame.

Work on improving your writing using online tools:

  • write in docs/word
  • copy and paste to Hemingway app
  • use Grammarly to fix minor issues
  • use Hemingway to make sure your sentences are well-written
  • copy and paste to your post