For today's writer's notebook, we switched things up. I moved Free Fridays to today so I could check their notebooks quickly. Students also completed a form where they shared the idea they're most interested in and the sentence they're most proud of. Then they placed a post-it on the one entry that they want me to read. Reminder: absences don't excuse you from completing the entries. You're still responsible for all of the work you missed.
We looked at writing samples from a released STAAR test to discern the difference between what makes a 3 and what makes a 4. Students are hard graders! Papers that scored a 4 were really scrutinized! We noticed that papers that scored a 4 have really great word choice, details, and sentence fluency.
We finished the Ode 1 analysis and returned to Scene 1 of Antigone to look at tone. We're focusing more on analysis with this play, so the questions packet (which students will get tomorrow) will be optional.
Tomorrow's test will have 30 multiple choice questions about a short story and two poems. Some basic literary terms will also be included (plot, setting, character, tone, etc.).
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