11/19/08

Discussion of Journals:

All students have proven they are skilled at summarizing. The new goal is to make the journal entries interesting to the student (and therefore the teacher). The following suggestions were given:

Make your paragraph 90% reaction and 10 % summary. 

Write a paragraph that answers one of the following questions: 

Was the chapter realistic (or unrealistic) ?

Was the chapter or situation boring (or interesting)?

Was it well written (or poorly written).

Always support your opinion with reasons why.

Practice Quiz on CR3 P134 and 135. 

Pair discussions of the following Questions. 

Students then wrote their own structured response in the form of a paragraph to answer each question specifically and in order. 

Homework:

CR3 p141 Choose about 10 of the vocabulary words and define them in your journal.

Read Chapter 23 of La Linea