Monday 4 November 2013 for Periods 1, 2, 5, & 6 and Tuesday 5 November 2013 for Period 7
Students distributed recently corrected papers and received a print out of their first quarter grade and given the opportunity to identify any errors in data entry or question the grading of any recent assignments.
Mr. Stone reviewed the last test, focusing on the two short answer (in this case, paragraph length) questions. He described the most common short-comings in students' response to the questions as well as described how students might write stronger responses on future tests. He specifically discussed the importance of the opening sentence. He warned students about using a series of overly simplistic sentences and demonstrated how such ideas should be combined into a more effective/sophisticated sentence.
As Mr. Stone segued/transitioned into how to write the introduction for the book report, he drew a connection to the types of opening lines that would not be desirable starts to a book report, e.g. The book I chose . . ., The topic of my book report is . . ., I'm going to talk about the book . . ."
Mr. Stone described three opening strategy options for beginning the report: a question, a quotation, an if then statement. He noted these were only three of many different possible successful opening strategies for beginning a report or essay and encouraged students to search the Internet for other options if they did not wish to use one of the three demonstrated.
Mr. Stone went over both the introduction and conclusion prewriting sheets that were distributed.
Homework: Complete introduction and conclusion prewriting sheets for the book report.
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