We reviewed the responses to our Chapter Six assignment to begin class today. I returned these assignments and students recorded marks in the summative assessment column on their assignments record. Students who missed today's class will find the assignment in their folder.
I collected quotation integration practice pieces from those who had completed the exercise. If you would like feedback on your ability to integrate quotations before you write a formal paragraph that I will evaluate, you will need to submit this activity next week, before Thursday. If you did not get a copy of the exercise, there is a link to it at the side.
We finished class with Writer's Workshop, writing poems to celebrate the people and things that have raised us. We read a poem called, "Raised by Women" by Kelly Norman Ellis, and noted her use of diction, repetition and specific detail in creating an homage to the women who raised her. Students brainstormed "mini-webs" of details about the people and things that have most influenced them, and then began drafting poems about where we came from.
I will be asking you to select a poem to be evaluated at the end of next week. You may wish to begin polishing a few of them....
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