Gods and Grammar

This is a link to the Adjective Clause practice, which was due today for a grade.

Also: the HW is for students to read Chapter 2 of Mythology: The Two Great Gods Of The Earth.
Aaaaaaannnnddd HERE is the study guide*. Answering the questions will count as Annotations.



*sorry for potato quality.

In-Class Op/Arg Draft

Link to the Key of Adj Clause Pract 3

(Checked, but not collected, today)

Clauses; Membean; Op/Arg Outline

First, we checked the Adj. Clause (#2) HW:

Then, we took a Membean Quiz

(See me to re-load your quiz if you missed today's class.)

Finally, students approached the last practice writing task that 

Link to the Opinion/Argument

Packet from Class

Regarding the deployment of the US Army.

The Phrase; Submitting Peer Reviews

The first thing students did today, upon their return to our frosty school building, was to take their first grammatical notes on our new unit: The Phrase.

Here is a link to the EOL Notes Sheet as a .docx

And here is a link to a .pdf of the same

The notes begin on page 144 of our purple Grammar Text.

After this, students and I capitalized on a leftover laptop lab. I enjoined students to finish, and submit, their TNReady Prompt 1 peer reviews.

Link to sign into Office 365

The guidelines for conducting a Peer Review are on a post below this one. But, to quickly overview:

• Your partner shares their draft with you (blue "Share+" button on Word Online)
• You provide feedback and tentative scoring in either, or both, of the following ways:
• Using the "Insert" tab, click "Comments". You can use the "+" to add comments that will appear in the margin.
• Click on "Edit Document". You can now type directly into your classmates' paper. If providing direct commentary in this manner, please use a new color of font. Or an entirely different font than the one the original author used.
• When you're done making suggestions and recommendations (the peer-editing job), YOU the peer-reviewer, Share+ YOUR CLASSMATE'S paper with YOUR COMMENTARY to ME.
• My address is: Jesse.Tidyman@mnps.org
• And if you don't know it by this point of the year, you're frankly beyond my help.

HW:

• Membean Quiz tomorrow
• Followed by an Approach to the TNReady Narrative Writing Prompt

TNR Practice: Peer Review

This is a link to the Peer Review checklist!

In-Class Writing Practice: Prompt 1: Info/EXP

Link to the Sample Passage

(click to read, right-click to download)

Link to Microsoft Office 365

(yourname@mnpsk12.org)

• Read the article.
• Respond, in writing, to Prompt 1, in a MS Word online document.

TNReady Writing: Rubric Analysis

Behold!

The Rubrics!

• Informative/Explanatory Writing 
• Argument Writing
• Narrative Writing

Also: this link is to the Rubric Analysis Charts from Class.