Week 20: Write and Review

Sorry this post is later than usual! It's been a busy 24 hours of tennis, gymnastics, new braces -- even loose brackets and two return trips to the orthodontist already -- for my family!

I'll be brief:

For EEL next week, continue reviewing at your child's skill level.

For IEW, complete three rough draft paragraphs for the prompt, "If I lived in ancient times, I would miss...." During class, we worked as a group and in pairs to complete our first key word outline on an object or activity each student would miss. I asked them to use the bolded question words to the right of the outline to help stimulate ideas.

If you spend time outlining with them, they DO NOT need to use or answer every bolded question. To get a feel for how the assignment is designed to flow, read the unicycle example on the back of the first stapled page I gave them. You'll see how some of the questions are fleshed out and how some are skipped. Use the questions as a tool, a beginning. I suggested they pretend they are reporters interviewing a subject about whom they are going to write an article. Often a question's answer will lead to another question -- this is great! It allows them to bunny trail, so to speak, and exhaust that idea before returning to the next question on the list.

PLEASE BRING ROUGH DRAFTS TO CLASS NEXT WEEK. WE WILL BEGIN POLISHING IN CLASS. THANK YOU!!!

Four weeks to go. Hard to believe!