Sunday, February 18, 2018

Post-Presidents' Day

Are you able to explain why the apostrophe is placed after the "s" rather than before it in Presidents'? If not, review your notes from the plural nouns page in your grammar section of the LA notebook.

This week brings vocab and roots tests, a new novel unit, and the last in-class days for completing your essay. The "official" due date for your FINAL DRAFT will be Monday, February 26. Over the next few days, I will be making comments on everyone's rough drafts. I encourage you to:
- have a peer read it; if they need to ask questions for clarification, you need to write more
- go through the rubric, one item at a time, to make sure you have everything
- check, then double check your parenthetical citations, Works Cited page, G.U.M.S.

One student found that he accidentally used a source that was identified as invalid on the shared chart. I'm so glad he caught this BEFORE he turned it in! Yes, he had to go find the information in another source.

Finally, for those of you who had difficulty with the Verbs Test, the tutorial for subject complements is WEDNESDAY morning, 7:25. There will be a recovery assessment coming soon.

No Day 1 this week.
Day 2: Vocab Test, Roots Test, finish thank-you note and envelope, receive new novel (if we don't have time, we will do this at the beginning of Day 3)
Day 3: Essay
Day 4: Last in-class day for work on the essay

One of my favorite parts of pre-spring in Georgia is watching the eaglets grow and fledge the nest. This is a live camera feed from Berry College (where Ms. Garrison went to college). SCROLL DOWN FOR A "FAMILY PHOTO"