August 27th, 2013

8/27/13

In Class:
Journal--  Reflect on your first day at Boulder Prep. What did you experience? How did people treat you? What brought you here?

GMX-- Nouns
Define noun: ________________________________________________ .
pronoun: a word that takes the place of the noun, e.g. he, her, him, these, that, they, etc.
Reviewed the use of nouns in "My Favorite Things."
Underline the nouns in the following excerpt; box the proper nouns.
Jonas did not want to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games. He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play…. (121) 
-The Giver by Lois Lowry 

Using a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich making workshop, we discussed the significance of revision:
Is there a better way I can say this?
Practiced revising using Shane's sample current event report.

Independently, each student revised and polished his or her current event report.

Exit ticket: Why revise?

Homework:
Revise your current event report before next class; save the original draft.