Wednesday, September 17, 2008

8th grade: Today in Language Arts-Grammar and Writer's Workshop

We went to the media center and read for 10 minutes. We then practiced analyzing prepositional phrases. First I reviewed prepositions with students and then went over object of prepositions. I told students not to confuse these with infinitive phrases. We practiced identifying prepositional phrases, and then objects of prepositions and adjectives inside the prepositional phrases. Students then practiced diagramming prepositional phrases.
Students reviewed dialogue, both internal and external. Then I passed out a list of seven situations. In their Writer's Notebooks, students chose one of the situations and then created 5-6 lines of dialogue for this situation. We will share the dialogue on Friday.

Homework: One Weekly Reading Question. If you haven't finished your dialogue, you must finish it by Friday.

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