More persuasion & Antithesis

Today we went to the computer lab. We typed up our papers there and got a half-sheet with instructions about what to revise. We left there at 2:55. We came back sat in our assigned seats and took a small quiz. Then we got into our groops and talked about the book, like what happened and such. Then we reviewed some more literary techniques, including antithesis, interrogative, exclamatory, declarative and imperitive sentences.

Allison

Prince of Wales discussions & persuasive writing

Our Bellwork for today was to turn in the progress reports and to put up the remaining literary term posters on the wall. Then, we were to gather in our journaling groups and discuss chapters 16-18 with the other group members, making sure to discuss the literary techniques.

Next, Mrs. Gilbert handed out a rubric for how to journal well and went over the guidelines with the class while using examples of other classmate’s journals from last night. This was followed with a ten-minute review of the literary techniques that are on the wall.

Then, Mrs. Gilbert discussed with us a fill in the blank worksheet that was on persuasive speeches. Then we had a while to start working on our rough drafts of the persuasive speech/essay. This rough draft is due tomorrow at the beginning of class.

Laura

The END of the RESEARCH PAPERS

Today we turned in our final draft to our research paper unless you got your tape yesterday then its do Thursday. You should've come to class with everything in order and then we wrote the reflection. Then we shared our favorite part. Pick a group to journal each chapter with.

Breanna

Catching up from the snowday

Bellwork: Work on lit. poster for 15 minutes then hang on the wall it wont be late until after Wednesday

15 minutes to talk about the book & then took quiz

Got a research paper check list, went over it. Bring research folder (final & process) all finished according to checklist tomorrow. You’ll have 30 minutes to do reflection, and then discussion on novel if we have time.

Maddie

Diction

Bellwork: Have journals out and silently listen to announcements. Make a group poster of verbs that come to mind when given a word assigned by Mrs. Gilbert.

Classwork: Take ten minutes to look over your paper and add more diction (both specific and creative) to your paper. Discuss chapters five through nine within group and then present any questions that you might have had to the class. Turn in all journals as well as any extra credit. Take notes on new literacy techniques, shifting adjectives and appositives, which can help to spice up your paper. Take the last fifteen minutes of class to do chapter ten journals or work on paper. Those who papers are due today, turn them in to Mrs. Gilbert.

Naudia

Thesis & Parallelism - from 12/7

Worked on our thesis
Looked for or added parallelism
Worked on what makes a good conclusion

Kellie

Shifting adjectives, appositives & diction

Bellwork: Have journals out and silently listen to announcements. Make a group poster of words that come to mind when given a word assigned by Mrs. Gilbert.

Classwork: Take ten minutes to look over your paper and add more diction to your paper.

Discuss chapters five through nine within group and then present any questions that you might have had to the class. Turn in all journals as well as any extra credit.

Take notes on new literacy techniques, shifting adjectives and appositives, which can help to spice up your paper. Take the last fifteen minutes of class to do chapter ten journals or work on paper.

Those who papers are due today, turn them in to Mrs. Gilbert.

Naudia

Absolutes and participles

We learned the literacy techniques absolutes and participles. Had handout to go with them. And you should probably get the notes from a classmate.

Got the rubric for out research paper and a new timeline for the next couple weeks.

We revised our 2nd rough drafts and added new literacy techniques to them also added other necessary literacy techniques to paper.

Some people had to turn in their 2nd rough draft with tape, others got theirs back.

HOMEWORK: Read and journal Chapter 11 from The Power of One

By Cristi

After the bell today we worked on finishing up finding errors in citing from yesterday and discussed how to format our works cited page. Then we learned about passive words (is, are, were, was, been). We found all of the passive words in our 2nd drafts and worked on changing it to an active voice. Journals are due either today (for chap. 1-7) or Monday (for chap. 1-9). For the last few minutes of class, papers were passed back and Mrs. Gilbert told us what to expect the rest of the semester.
Have a good weekend * Nicky *

Time to talk about characters.

Today we took a quiz on “The Power of One” chapters 1-6. We also made a poster on characters in the book, found quotes that described them, and identified literary techniques in the quotes. Also we practiced citation. Homework: Have rough draft #2 done by tomorrow (12/2/05) and bring your audio tape.

--JJ