Class on 10/27/11

Class completed Surveys
Last two paragraphs were returned with corrections. Students discussed corrections in order to re-write paragraphs. Instructor worked with one group on moving from from copying to understand importance of using their own words (even if they make mistakes and their paragraphs are shorter!)

Instructor discussed current grade and missing paperwork individually with students.

Students worked in pairs and analyzed and corrected a previous parapraph or a different students. Students "acting as teachers" looked for key words from the original paragraph question to see if they show up in the paragraph's introductory sentence. Students also looked over the assigned reading section on "Nursery Schools" and looked for copied text where students did not use quotes.

Homework: 
Write 16 past tense sentences using the last column of class's selection of irregular past tense verbs.
said        
saw
sang
sat
slept
spoke
spent
stood
swam
took
told
thought
understood
woke
won
Turn in re-writes of previous paragraphs (or missing previous homework).