Don't forget your disclosure signatures if you haven't already handed that and the VIP form in. (They are late.)
You should have brought your composition book that you will leave in the classroom.
Remember to study your spelling every school day. The test is on September 9.
Sign up today for your Book-of-the-Month Club book.
Notice that the dates you have signed up for the Reading Minute are on the class calendar on this blog. They are also recorded on Skyward. If you haven't yet signed up, do so right away, please.
1. Bell-Ringer:
a. Students took a practice quiz for the spelling test which will be next time. (Teachers', administrators', counselor's names)
To print a new copy of the handout for your first spelling assignment, click here:
Spelling Teachers' Names Compb. Everyday Editing
FYI: (This great information and today's examples are from Jeff Anderson's book, Everyday Editing.)
-- Commas can separate items or actions written in a series.
-- Lists consist of three or more items or actions.
-- Two items or actions are a pair, not a list, and do not require commas.
-- A comma separating the last item in a series may be omitted if and or or stand in and separate the last item. It's an issue of style. (In my class, I ask for the comma before the "and" or "or" to stay.)
About serial commas:
"Serial commas help combine sentences and expand ideas by using sensory detail -- specific nouns and verbs." p. 50
"Lists can be a way to add specifics to our writing.'" p. 51
Your task for the bell-ringer:
a. Label the page with today's date, number from one to five, and tell what is different about each bolded imitation from the original sentence.(on the overhead, or at the following link if you are absent).
Commas in a Series -- What's Different?
2. Today's Reading Minute by Ms. Dorsey
Add this to the list in your composition book:
from National Geographic Traveler, "Bus to Antarctica" by Andrew Evans
["Yes" or "No" whether you'd be interested in reading more of this.]
3. Sign up to do a Reading Minutes. Students will begin sharing in October. Watch for something you read that is well-written and interesting. You will write the title and author on the whiteboard, then read to us for a minute or so. Your reading minute could be from a book (fiction or nonfiction), a short story, one or more poems, a magazine, a newspaper editorial, etc.
Return Inner Voices worksheets
How do we how we treat others who are different from us?
Last time we read about Pearl S. Buck as a child in China. How did the Chinese people treat her, and what did they say about the white people?
4. Read a short story, "Barrio Boy," and record your inner voices.
[If you were absent today, plan to complete this assignment a during Cave Time - not on Wednesdays.]
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