Written by: Shelly Krill
1/28/2008

We've got a great week planned. Many kids are making plans and reservations for SATs, High School entrance exams and, of course, the state required CSAPs. To better understand how to write for standardized tests, we need to look at the types of questions that are asked, and how to approach a response. The good news is that these skills are the same skills used for answering essay questions on exams.

Monday - Revise the CDE writing rubric so that it makes sense to kids and is a useful teaching tool, not just a meaningless or mysterious score. Students typed up their own rubric over the weekend; today, they combine their efforts in small focus groups.

Tuesday - Writing on Demand to a narrative prompt. We will review the necessary elements for narrative responses and write one of our own. Reading log check (7 due). Verb practice - due Thursday.

Wednesday - Journalism kids will be re-working their yearbook pages and uploading/importing pictures.

Thursday - Using the rubric that we created we will score our writing from Tuesday and look at other examples of narrative writing. Vocab due; Vocab quiz on -ism and -ist

Friday - No School for kids

Writing - Focus on writing to prompt/essay questions. Using a self created rubric we will score our own writing.

Reading- Continue to work on reading logs. Remember 3 per week, 3 quotes per log.

Vocabulary - ism Greek suffix meaning a practice, doctrine or belief.
-ist Greek suffix meaning a person who follows a specific practice, doctrine or belief

Grammar - Tuesday and Thursday we will be talking about verbs. Verb practice due Thursday.

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