Monday, September 22, 2008

7th grade: Today in Language Arts-Reader's Workshop

All students read for 10 minutes. All students created a "Sentence Diagramming Study Tool" to take home with them tonight to help them study for the quiz. Students seem to be struggling with their study skills so for the next few weeks the day before a quiz, I will help students develop some kind of resource to help them study. Students took down 7 helpful steps to remember when diagramming sentences and then wrote down some practice sentences. We diagrammed the practice sentences together.
Students set up their Reader's Notebooks for a Dialogue Analysis activity. Students read an excerpt from a novel with a lot of dialogue. Students were asked to generate analysis of each character by supporting their analysis with the dialogue the character used. We ran out of time and will continue this activity and finish it on Wednesday.

Homework: Use your study tool to study for tomorrow's quiz on diagramming adverbs!

*Parents,
To help your child practice their diagramming skills, you can give them sentences to diagram that have adverbs in them. Your child can then use his/her study tool to practice the steps of sentence diagramming.

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