Thursday, October 21, 2010

Week at a glance Oct 25 - 28, 2010

Curriculum focus: determines meaning of words through knowledge of word structure (11.1.3.K3), generating writing based on personal experience (11.7.1.1), organizing and planning a written piece (11.7.1.3), shares a draft with others to elicit feedback (11.7.1.5), revises the draft (11.7.1.6), edits the draft (11.7.1.7), composes persuasive writing (11.7.2.1c), adapts writing by identifying, analyzing, and understanding audience (11.7.2.2), writes using one or more text structures when appropriate to a achieve a specific purpose or to address a specific audience: problem/solution (11.7.2.4d), develops clear and purposeful ideas with sufficient evidence and/or relevant detail to satisfy purpose using sufficient evidence, examples, anecdotes, quotations, expert opinions, and/or statistics (11.7.2.1d), organizes ideas in a logical structure (11.7.3.2), writes with energy and enthusiasm (11.7.3.3), selects and employs words to convey message in an interesting, precise, and natural way (11.7.3.4), creates text that flows easily with a variety of sentence structures (11.7.3.5), uses standard writing conventions effectively to enhance readability (11.7.3.6)

No new root words this week because we are in the computer lab doing research.

Parent/Teacher Conferences - WRHS will be hosting Parent/Teacher Conferences Wednesday, Oct 27, and Thursday, Oct 28, after school from 4 - 8 pm.

This week we are meeting all week in the library as we complete research for the Problem/Solution Research Essay. The assignment for the Annotated Bibliography, due Thursday, is available to download under the Course Materials section of this website.
  • Mon: Begin Annotated Bibliography for the Problem/Solution Essay
  • Tues: Continue working on the Annotated Bibliography for the Problem/Solution Essay
  • Wed: Continue working on the Annotated Bibliography for the Problem/Solution Essay
  • Thurs: Annotated Bibliography due by the end of the hour
  • Fri: No school

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