Today we wrote a quiz in chapters 6-7.
In our lesson today we focused on vocabulary. Students were taught to NOT use simple describing words such as "good, bad, scary, sad, good, happy, unhappy, glad mean" -- these are all words that students used when they were four years old, and they must not use them any longer in their writing. Instead students referred to a handout called Character Trait Word Bank and selected appropriate words to describe a character from the novel The Outsiders.
This work will eventually lead to working on a character paragraph where students discuss a particular character and his traits.
Read to the end of chapter 8 for Friday.
Novel must be finished by next Wednesday, Nov. 17th - we'll likely be doing our final novel test that day.
