This week is all about building vocabulary, looking at model essays, and learning ways to apply those skills to our writing.
Monday – G/L Roots
Tuesday – go over roots practice; share what student groups discovered about the model essays from last week; begin comparing their own writing to the model essays and discover what tricks they could apply from the model essays
Wednesday – lesson on expository introductions; brainstorm new prompt for next expository essay
Thursday – lesson on smiley face tricks (improving elaboration); drafting essays
Friday – continue drafting
I hope everyone enjoyed their three-day weekend! Today, students will practice revising & editing with STAAR-type passages.
Tomorrow is a half day for students; we will use this time to go over the work from today.
Thursday and Friday will be devoted to looking at the essays students wrote last week as well as breaking down model essays (anonymous essays released by the state that received 4s on last year’s STAAR Writing test). We will look at the score reports and focus on all the things they did right.
Welcome to the second semester!
This week, students will be working with new Greek & Latin roots in an effort to become better communicators in both writing and speech. Learning roots also increases their comprehension of unfamiliar words in other’s writing and speech.
They will also be reviewing the writing process and parts of the expository essay. I have some fun things planned to assist with this such as a digital word cloud and a game of word sneak!