In class today we peer edited the power 2s we had for the 5 main ideas. Students removed one of the main ideas that they felt was not as strong, so they now have 4 power 1s, and three power 2s for each one. Their assignment today was to clean those up and put them in powerboxes. This will be due tomorrow.

Students used 5 of the 6 main points today. Assigned were three power 2s (details) for each of the five power 1s (main idea). They had ~30 minutes to work on this in class. This assignment will be due tomorrow.

Create a web with a minimum of 6 main points on one of the following topics. You must decide to be for or against the topic as well. Due tomorrow.

Cell phones in school

4 day school week (same total hours, 1 less day)

Transportation to and from school

DOL Test on Friday.

monday, Sept. 26

In writing today we working on descriptive language..a little. The following paragraph needs to be re written using more descriptive language. The words in red are ones that should b changed, at a minimum. This is due tomorrow. Students had some time in class to work on this as well.

You are a high school student. Essay in one hand you go to class. "I'm done!" You smile. The teacher takes the essay out of your hands and throws it away. She says, "It's a day late!" You look at your hard work. The teacher did noit even look at it! The No Late Homework Rule is bad.

Rotation #1 is doing a similar assignment but they are writing to a prompt about persuading a company to give them a free trip to Disney Land. This too should only be a paragraph using descriptive language. This is also due tomorrow.

Sept 20

Hopefully we are up and running for the blogs. As of now I have not adjusted the emails to the teachers on the side bar because I have to access pictures, which I cannot do from school...darn. But if you need to contact one of us right now, and cannot figure out how, here are the emails:

Laurie.rhein@mead354.org
dale.pfiffner@mead354.org
Teresa.buddington@mead354.org
roger.thompson@mead354.org

Hope this helps a bit.

No homework yet...just studying for DOL tests on Thursdays. We hope to start rotations this Wednesday.

First Day

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