Create a chart to answer the two questions above. Use formal English and check your spelling and grammar as this chart will be used during parent-teacher interviews.
I will have your marks ready tomorrow and you will complete a self-assessment check-list and create a plan for improvement.
Today, we signed out the text, To Kill a Mockingbird. Be sure to get to the library to sign out a copy of this fabulous novel.
We also began a practice opening to our short story. We cut adjectives and adverbs as their usage often reflects weak writing. Remember grade 5 when you learned to use adjectives? In grade 10, we take them out.
Instead of saying, Taylor stood at the door nervously.
You describe Taylor's nervous actions and let the reader infer that he is nervous.
Example:
Taylor could not stand still. He shifted his weight from one leg to the other as if he were waiting in line for a urinal. All he was waiting for was a seat in the booth. He had to tell Tammy the truth and he had to tell her today.
Three months ago he had met Tammy at a spirit game. The Victoria police were attempting to defeat Claremont's senior boys basketball team. Tammy was selling tickets at the door and she joked with him.
"Where's your hat?"
"Pardon." The fans were cheering so loudly Taylor couldn't hear very well.
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We shared our story ideas with our partners and we reviewed the themes of the stories we studied during the unit.
