All students submitted their Reading Folders.
7th grade
We reviewed sentence diagramming once again in preparation for our quiz tomorrow. Students should study the notes we've taken in class and the practice sentences tonight so that they are prepared to take the pretest tomorrow. In assigned groups, students generated their opinions on what made a good ending and what made a not-so-good ending to a story. We then discussed our opinions (and the components of both good and bad endings) and I reminded students how important the endings of their short stories are to the quality of their story. Tomorrow will be the last day we spend solely on writing strategies; we start writing short stories on Monday.
Homework: Study for the sentence diagramming retest!
8th grade
In assigned groups, students were given the last pages to three different novels. Students chose quotes from the endings of these stories and then analyzed their effectiveness as ending quotes. Students spent the entire class time reading and analyzing the endings; we will discuss our findings in class tomorrow and refine our earlier definitions of good and bad story endings.
Homework: None
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