Today we worked on our first full day of acting upon our revisions and additions to our stories based on the revision tasks we did last Thursday and Friday. Students had the entire period to revise and polish their drafts.
All drafts will be completed tomorrow within the first 30 minutes of class.
Coming Up This Week:
- Tuesday, 9/17: Finish final draft; turn in process work (station work, printed rough draft, story planners) using the checklist I will provide you. Complete writing self-evaluation and then work on NoRedInk module on Formatting Dialogue and Flow Quotes + Capitalizing Quotes Mastery Practice
- Wednesday, 9/18: Common Assessment on Short Story Reading Skills in Common Lit; finish the survey from Tuesday if needed and work on the NoRedInk module.
- Thursday, 9/19: Annotation strategies mini-lesson; begin reading “Thank You Ma’m” by Langston Hughes in Common Lit and completing the assigned tasks in Common Lit.
- Friday, 9/20: Finish “Thank You Ma’m” assignment in Common Lit and begin working on “Thank You Ma’am” Story Analysis Brochure
Hamilton 8th Language Arts 