The 9A class presented their Introduce Yourself Narratives today. They shared a writing tip with a few lower grade classes and told about themselves, sharing artifacts. I appreciate the parents who came, it makes our presentations so authentic to have parents listening. Coming up this week, we will be reflecting on this experience and we will prepare to read a biography of one of the country's founding fathers. We will also start on some vocabulary instruction.
In both 10th grade classes we are starting to write a restaurant review. The first draft is due, printed out by Wednesday. We will then read some mentor text examples from newspapers. We will examine how they write and we will see how we can apply their strategies to our reviews. We will have time to revise and improve ours. We plan to send some in to the local newspaper, in case they are in need of some reviews in the future.
The 10th grade classes will be sharing their "I Remember" poems in a poetry reading with the 4th and 5th graders. 10B (2nd Block) will share with 5th graders on Tuesday, 9/15 and 10A (3rd block) will share with 4th graders on Wednesday, 9/16. As always, parents are welcome to join for that poetry reading and writing instruction.
The 9B class turned in their Introduce Yourself Narrative projects today. They were really proud of them as they should have been. Some of the covers were true works of art! They expressed their personality and experiences. We will write our speeches this week and practice. We will be ready to deliver the speeches on Tuesday, 9/15. This will be in a one at a time format, with our class as the audience. Any parents who want to attend, please email me and I can give you a more specific time frame for when your child will be speaking.
As always, please encourage your student to read, read, read! Ask your student the best way to learn new vocabulary words!
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