Today I gave you the Anticipation Guide for our next unit: Canada. The anticipation guide is a list of 82 key terms (all of which are "fair game" on any test in this unit). I asked you to mark next to the key terms with a checkmark if you knew the key term, an * (asterisk) if you knew something about the key term, and a ? (question mark) if you didn't know anything about the key term. If you were being honest, realistically you should have had about 40 question marks. You were then responsible for alphabetizing your list of key terms and you started creating a glossary of key terms.
Next, in Writer's Workshop we looked at "The Really Bad Words". No, no, it's not those really bad words. The really bad words are words that students use in their writing everyday that detract for their writing. For example, if you were describing someone that is beautiful, why would you write, "She was really beautiful"? Why not write, "She was exquisite"? Or if you were writing that someone was "very funny", why not write "hilarious" or "hysterical". Do you get the idea? I also had you copy down a "really bad paragraph", and then asked you to edit and polish it.
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