Projects: North/South paragraphs were due today at 9:50. I will grade them, provide feedback, and students will use them to make their textbook chapters. At home, students should be working on their first person presentation that he/she will give to the class on Thursday. This presentation is basically their paragraph, but changed to first person point of view. We will discuss this tomorrow in class as well.
7th and 8th grade reading: Students read a passage about social reform in the Antebellum era. They are working on pulling causes and effects out of what they read. Students also worked on expanding their vocabulary by pulling out unknown words and using context clues and the dictionary to apply meaning.
Writing: Students are starting to work on a narrative that they will write and turn in. We read a book today written in third person, and will read another tomorrow that is written in first person so students have an idea of how each point of view should look. Students are only in the pre-writing stage of the writing process, and will take the next week or so to write a good, solid narrative. I will conference with individual students throughout this process, and each student will come away with a good perspective on narrative writing.
Homework: All students should finish their cause/effect organizer with their social reform reading passage. If they finished in class, that's fine. However, students know that I'm looking for specifics and a lot of detail in this.
Another awesome day!!!
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