Post date: Oct 21, 2019 12:48:47 PM
This week students continue their review and guided notes on the RACES strategy that we will use for short answer response questions. Students will practice a one minute speech on a random topic pulled from a list they generated to practice creating a claim. The classes will finish the week with a modeling of the introduction paragraph and how to create a hook.
Students will begin to brainstorm words that are over used in their writing and thereby now known as the dead words with a sugar skull activity that corresponds to Day of the Dead and Halloween. Going forward we will avoid using these words in our writing.