Monday, October 20, 2008

Midterm Grades

Congratulations 702 & 731, we are halfway through our first Trimester. Grades are in and progress reports are on their way. 731 spent the afternoon going over our midterm test and reviewing what they know, want to know, and have learned in ELA so far.

WHAT THEY KNOW/WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED
That ELA is About Reading & Writing
Genres
Small Moment
Personal Narrative
Writing Process (Prewriting/Drafting/Revising/Editing/Publishing)
Sequence
Using Descriptive Words
Character's Motivation
Making Inferences in Literature
Making Text Connections
What Good Readers Do
Peer Review
Grammar/Mechanics
Prediction
Characterization
Timelines/Webs

WHAT THEY WANT TO KNOW
Limerics
How to be better readers
5 senses by memory
Bid Idea
Poetry
How to write Haiku
How to write Couplets
How to write a Novel

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Great list of things the students want to know. I have an amazing poetry unit planned for April (national poetry month) in which we will compose a variety of theme-based poems, as well as, hopefully, have a poetry slam.
Mrs. Marks

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