This week, students are working on increasing their stamina in writing through 10-minute quickwrites. Each day, students are encouraged to beat their own word count from the previous day, and we celebrate achievement! Topics are engaging and ideas from quickwrites can be used in later essay assignments.

Students are also able to enter their universal screener (benchmark) answers into DMAC this week. That data will help me determine who might benefit from tutorials.

We are also reviewing commas and students have been assigned a diagnostic and practice at NoRedInk.com.

Advanced students have an SAT Vocabulary test and their responses to the Article of the Week is due on Friday.