All students read in their independent books for 10 minutes.
7th Grade
We read an article entitled "How to Build Effective Characters" and had a brief class discussion about what we read. Then, in our Reader's Notebooks, we recorded both the common errors writers make in creating characters and different strategies writers can use to build effective characters.
I passed out an except from Stephanie Meyer's book Twilight. We underlined effective descriptive phrases Meyer used to bring her characters to life and shared these.
Homework:
Please study your vocabulary words! Vocabulary Quiz One will be on Wednesday, August 20th. *Please note that this is a change.
8th grade
We read two articles written by published authors on different strategies a writer can use to build effective characters. In our Reader's Notebooks we recorded a list of Do's and Dont's for character building. I passed out an except from Stephanie Meyer's book Twilight. We underlined effective descriptive phrases Meyer used to bring her characters to life and shared the phrases we chose and discussed what made them effective character descriptions. I also passed out an example of Old English (an excerpt of Beowolf) as students expressed an interest in seeing a sample of Old English last week when we reviewed the history of the English language.
Homework:
Please study your vocabulary words! Vocabulary Quiz One will be on Wednesday, August 20th. *Please note that this is a change.
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