January 4

Humanities 8

Today we started off with a check-in and then we did some silent reading.  Next we looked at our 2 pieces of writing in our folders and students were asked to select the best one and write why they thought it was the best one.  The 3 pieces of writing were handed in.  Next students were introduced to their poetry portfolio assignment assessment chart and we filled in the first 3 assignments.  Finally, students were introduced to their Poetry Anthology assignment, which will be working on for the next week or two.

English 10

Today we started off with a check in.  Students were asked to hand in their Star Wars assignments if they hadn't already.  Work was returned while students did some silent reading.  We went over the Star Wars assignment and then we looked at an essay example to demo the importance of a thesis and topic sentences.  We also looked at transition words and students were provided with a booklet with a list of transition words to refer to.  

Students were asked to focus on the following for their essays:

• structure - paragraphing and topic sentences
• transitions
• avoiding the use of "I"

The remainder of the class was used for working on their essays.