Today's class began with a quick check in - students are actually feeling a little low - glad the sun is shining for them :)
We marked last week's comma quiz (I had a momentary teacher crisis in block 5, when the vast majority of the class disagreed with me about whether a comma belonged in a particular sentence or not - IT DID - but it turns out that we missed dependent clauses in our exemplars.
Students then read their independent novels for 10 minutes or so, before we moved into talking about "7 Snappy Starters."
We finished the block by talking about the components of a literary paragraph - Hook, Intro/top sentence (including title and author, as well as argument), Context, 3 body points with EVIDENCE, Conclusion, and Topic Extension.
Tomorrow, students will right a rough draft of a paragraph, before embarking on the peer edit and drafting process. BRING NOVELS
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