Tuesday 9/19/06

9/19/06
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Today is Tuesday 9/19/06,and we will be doing our daily spark,and then our essay.
your going to get your wordskills book back and the grades for the wordskills books has been posted and cannot be changed from this point on.
Todays Daily spark..

The writing process
1.Explain why prewriting is impotant in the writing process.
2.What is the purpose of transitions in an essay?
3.Are examples always necessary in an essay?
Explain why or why not?
Then,
In your literary groups of three you will read and score the FCAT practice essays of your classmates follow the guidelines listed below.
-Highlight the topic sentence in each paragraph
-Circle all transitional words or phrases used
-Place a square around fresh vocabulary words or phrases used
-Underline examples given in each paragraph
-And answer the following questions;
1.What do you think the writer is saying?
2.What's the main idea of the essay?
3.Does the writer stay on topic?
4.were there enough examples given?Explain.



sc-Jenna :D