September
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ELA 20: Sept 16 New sub unit – Home and Family…
- Students have been working on their reflective essays. Today’s class was a break from that to give some an extra day to complete their outlines at home. Tomorrow, we will have computer time where they can type out their essay. A due date hasn’t yet been set but will be decided on as a class. (Likely Friday.)
- Before moving on with the next sub-unit, we did a review of the basic types of comma use. There are really only three common uses we use on a day-to-day basis so we focused on those. Students were given a handout outlining 8 types of ways commas can be used and the linked sets that were actually similar of the same. This was just a review and will be something we will likely cover again soon. (I admit it could have gone better, but I’m still working the kinks out of using the smartboard! We’ll review it, though, I promise!)
- We watched a video of young people talking about the types of relationships they have with their parents. It was the basis of a short discussion about the reality that who you will become in life has so much to do with where you’ve come from, especially the influence of parents and home.
- Students were given a short story to read titled “The Penny in the Dust”. I asked them to read it silently on their own first. (I want them to become more comfortable with relying on themselves with reading and being able to pick out the important information.) They had a question sheet attached as well and were asked to respond to the first question on the page that asked for details of the Setting and the Characters. They finished this just before the bell rang.
- We’ll be in the PC lab tomorrow and will, then, continue our discussion of the story on Thursday.