Wednesday, September 26, 2012

English 8

We started class today with silent reading in our books. Next, I reviewed with students the rubric for the narrative essay, talked briefly on sentence style, and gave students a checklist of things to do before they turn in a final draft.

When students were finished with their final draft, they printed off their work. The order for stapling the narrative writing goes as follows: rubric, final draft, rough draft.

The narrative writing is due on Friday!

Also, on Friday, I will be collecting all writer's notebooks, and giving students a grade for their daily work in them!
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