We started "Sylvia's Shop" today, the first part of the practice packet for the written section of the ELA State Assessment. We first copied the notes below:
Power Logic for Constructed Responses and Essays:
Preview passages, directions, pictures, questions. Underline key words in directions and questions. Read. Review.
Paragraph construction:
Sentence 1: TTQA* + answer
Sentence 2: Detail
Sentence 3: Detail
Sentence 4: Detail
USE YOUR REASONING TO CONNECT THE QUESTION WITH THE ANSWER AND THE DETAILS WHICH SUPPORT THAT ANSWER.
(*TTQA = Turn That Question Around. Strategy for restating the question as a statement with the answer.)
Students previewed the passage, underlined key words in the directions and questions and tried to get a general idea of the main idea. Then the passage was read, details pertaining to Sylvia were identified and underlined and chapter titles written. Questions 30 and 31 to be finished for homework, with the Power Logis definition in mind.
Also for tomorrow, vocab definitions.
reminder: Those who received below a C on the essay (Let's be someone else for a while) are to stay after school to begin a rewrite. Period 3 on Wednesday, Period 7 on Thursday.
