Friday, November 2, 2012

English 8

Everyday Editing: Create two sentences using a subordinating conjunction at the beginning of each sentence. Start one sentence with "As" and begin the other sentence with "When." Remember to put in the commas!

SSR

Quick Write: Answer number nine on page 15 of your reader's notebooks. (Also, today we turned in the reader's notebooks for a grade!!)

Lesson: We worked on completing our literary essays, did some proof-reading, and turned in the copy we have been working on this week. If you are a person that didn't finish today in the lab, here are your options:  1. Stay after school on Tuesday until 4:00 to work on paper in the computer lab.
                             2. Finish at home over the weekend.
                             3. Come in early before school starts anytime next week to complete the essay on
                                  one of my classroom computers.
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