Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5
Friday We went to the library at the beginning of the class to select a silent reading novel that was realistic fiction. When we got back to class we looked at another example of a good response to a text. In addition, we looked at some transitions (notice how I began this sentence with a transition?) that will improve the flow in your persuasive writing. Thursday At the beginning of the class I explained a definition of realistic fiction (see info in the links section of this blog). I would like everyone in the class to select a realistic fiction novel to read during silent reading for term 3. Next, we returned, one last time, to the story Rock Bottom and I asked you to write a response to the story where you persuade me about your view on the theme of the story. We looked at an example of a strong text response and I pointed out some things that a strong response should include such as a topic sentence, P oints E xamples E xplanations, a conclusion, just to name a few. Wednes