Tues. 2/10/15

Learning Target:

• Punctuate dialogue correctly
• "Show, don't tell" when writing a story (include dialogue and description for important "zoom in" moments)

Work Collected:

• Dialogue formative assessment (Google form)

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.
• Due tomorrow: book permission slips
• Due Thursday: AoW (Assessment: MLA format)

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Dialogue
• Save handout: punctuating dialogue
• Formative assessment: see e-mail from Ms. Johnson
• Work on rough drafts
• Try to "show, not tell" the important moments--zoom in with dialogue and description
• Focus on cranking out your story--try not to edit and just let yourself write
• Work on article of the week
• Due Thursday
• Assessment: MLA format (see handout from yesterday's class)