Thank you for a wonderful, exciting year! Please remember to read, read, read, and yes...write also, during the summer.

If you are wondering how to find a book within your lexile range, this website may help:

http://ya.huntleylibrary.org/lexiles

Go to the site, and click on your range. If you forget your lexile, just email me! I have access to it.

Have a safe, healthy, happy summer :)

Our final Friday for the year!

Today all classes did their post-on demand writing for the year. On Monday, they will compare it to a similar prompt they did in Oct., and they will reflect upon their progress. I want to commend all students for having such a positive attitude about this assignment so close to the end of the year. I think students have acquired an "I got this" feeling about writing, and it shows! Excellent!

Enjoy your weekend!

We're gettin' there!

Please come in tomorrow with your three pieces of evidence, and the sources from which you found them, to write your post-on demand writing. This will be completed in one class period, and it is meant to reflect your very best writing. This writing should pull in as many strategies as possible from you learning this year.

On Monday, you will use this writing to compare to a similar piece you wrote in Oct. You will be amazed!

Thank you for working hard on your sentence type assessment today! :)

See you tomorrow!

Things to remember:

• Locker clean out is tomorrow! Bring some extra plastic bags to take your extra items home.
• Did you forget your books for text book check in today? Bring them tomorrow!

H/W:

• Sentence types quiz tomorrow! Study your practice sheets and do the practice quizzes (links on my previous blog post). You can also google additional online quizzes by searching "Simple, Compound, Complex Sentence Practice."
• Periods 1, 5: Know how to identify and explain simple, compound and compound sentences
• Periods 2, 3, 6: Know how to identify and explain simple, compound, complex and compound/complex sentences

See you tomorrow!

Here are links to online assessments for simple, compound, complex, and compound/complex sentences. These will give you more practice!

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/sentence_types_quiz.htm

http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073511994/student_view0/brush_up/part_i-grammar2/grammar_exercise_04.html

http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshow.php?title=sentence-structure-simple-compound-complex-compoundcomplex-sentences&q=1

I hope everyone enjoyed the warm, wonderful long weekend!

A few notes:

• Text book check- in is tomorrow! Bring all your textbooks you have at home back to school. This includes the blue Elements of Literature book! 
• Locker clean-out is Thursday after lunch. You may want to bring a plastic bag (or two) to carry your extra things home.

Today we reviewed compound, complex (and compound/complex in some classes) sentences. If you need the practice sheet handed out today for homework, please go to Canvas, then modules, then "Compound and Complex Sentence Practice" under Sentence Types practice. All the practice sheets we have been working with are your study guides for the quiz Thursday. I will also post links to some online quizzes for practice later this evening. We also continued with suspense stories. These are incredible! Your stamina as writers has grown so much!

H/W:

• Bring textbooks for textbook check-in tomorrow.
• Sentence types practice sheet due tomorrow. 
• Sentence types quiz on Thursday. The sentence types you need to know are: simple, compound, complex, compound/complex.

See you tomorrow!

Happy Friday!

We had a fabulous trip to Amish Acres yesterday! The play was wonderful, and I doubt if many students were able to eat dinner last night; after that delicious carb load, all I could think about was a nap! Students, thank you for your excellent, polite behavior.

Today, we practiced more with complex sentences. There will be a quiz next Thurs. Students continued to share their suspenseful stories. It is so much fun to hear their fluency and elaboration...wow!

Enjoy your weekend! We will try to finish stories on Tuesday.