Literature Circles - Remember to bring books

Good evening everyone:

In an effort to create some consistent time for the lit. circles, every Thursday during period 3 702 should bring their lit. circle books and every Friday during period 7, 731 should have their lit circle book.

Please make sure to come prepared with your book and your readers' sourcebook.

Have a good night.
Ms. S

Andrew Standards post

my standard is to get atleast a low 4 on the ela test.

Andrew Goals Post

my goal for the ela test is to beat the time limit for the test.

A new forum for social issues

Let's explore our democracy - while you were all at the Museum of Natural History, I was learning about ways we can learn about how our constitution is enacted today...

http://constitution.teachingmatters.org/sackstein

Visit our class link to talk about social studies specific ideas and issues.

I have to figure out what the login info is before anyone tries... thanks for letting me know that the other info didn't work.

Editing practice using worksheets

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/wcenter/General.htm#subjects

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/divisions/longman/long_rude_techedit_3/dep.html - more challenging - do with parents

http://www.quia.com/pop/104212.html

Start with these....

Editing - the big scary monster, so it seems...

It seems that everyone's greatest fear is the editing section. Today we will be doing one in class and going over it. On Thursday, I will make sure to have several editing sections to practice. It's really about practice and exposure.

I'd like to remind everyone, that they can practice everyday with their own work... Even in the posts about what your concerns are there were many careless mistakes. Like the word careless is spelled with an "e". When you start a new sentence after a period, the first word should be capitalized. Just because you are writing to the blog doesn't make you exempt from standard written English... practice, practice, practice!

Anthony Baffo ELA

I think that the test will be easy. All I have to do is Read the passage and Answer the question.I would like to go over the part were we fix the spelling in the story or passage.

Anthony Baffo