ELA 10: Week 6, 10/1–10/4

MONDAY

• Debrief Submit Write and Rewrite
• Conjunction response
  • Read and respond: The Value of Conjunctions - Google Docs
  • Resource: A list of conjunctions
  • Journal in Classroom
• Test on Friday

TUESDAY

Test Review
List of Resources for this project

WEDNESDAY

• SRI Makeup
  If you are new to the district, your login information is as follows:
  username: first 3 letters of your last name + first 3 letters of your first name + year of graduation (all lowercase)
  example: ozichr21
  password: student number
• Examples of grammar issues: Grammar samples - Google Docs
  • What issues do you notice? 
  • Pick one of the samples. Highlight any places that feel rough to you.
  • What sentences are poorly built? Why?
  • Are there places that are unclear?
  • With your partner, rewrite the paragraph(s) to make it clearer. Feel free to split up a paragraph into more than one paragraphs and to add or rearrange information if it makes sense to do so.

THURSDAY

1. In a group of 4, have one person make a copy of this document and then share it with the others: Grammar samples–Revised
2. Then, use the comment feature in Google Docs to highlight and identify each change you see in the revised version of each of the 4 samples.
3. As a group, look at your comments and come up with a list of "rules" for writing and editing a good paragraph. Add this to the bottom of your document.

FRIDAY

• Test