Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope all of you had a great, relaxing break and are ready to power through Semester Two. Today we discussed our next unit, writing (yay!) Over the next two and a half weeks, we will be working on building your writing skills as you compose a personal narrative on any topic you wish. We will be drafting in the lab, evaluating each other's work in a writer's workshop, practicing grammar activities, and looking at lot's of model texts and examples. Click here for a unit calendar. Our class time today was spent in the lab doing some initial brainstorming and freewriting to various prompts of your choice. If you were absent, you will have an opportunity to get some of this done on Friday during writing time.