The end of the semester is rapidly approaching, and I'm just not sure where it went. We've done so much, and yet I still feel like I have a lot to cover.
This past week was eaten by the County Writing Test and wrapping up loose ends. We started the week reflecting on the second nine week grading period and working more on the parts of speech. My students can tell me what the definitions are but have trouble identifying them in context.
So we used the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll to help see how the parts of speech work in a sentence. They had to look at what the nonsense word was doing in the sentence to figure out what part of speech it would be. I hope it's helped to make sense of the parts of speech so that we can move on to parts of a sentence.
The second class of the week consisted responding to a prompt. The ninth grade writing test is a county wide assessment. Students are given a prompt and a series of related quotes to work from. Overall, I think they did well. Some were better than others, but that is to be expected.
Friday we did a morning rotation that focused on giving and then watched The Ultimate Gift in the afternoon. It was a really good movie and day.
One week to go...
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