Tuesday, October 17, 2006

1. Today we completed a timed essay using a persuasive prompt. The prompt is provided below:

Writing Situation

The principal at your school has instituted random locker and backpack/bookbag searches to check for guns, knives and other weapons. Anyone caught with these weapons will be immediately suspended.

Directions for Writing

What is your opinion on this issue? Do you think these searches will help students feel safer? Write a letter to your local newspaper stating your position and supporting it with convincing reasons.

2. When we completed the essay, we highlighted each topic sentence in the essay and drew a box around all transitional words or phrases.

3. Silent reading of the novel Lord of the Flies. We should be finished with chapter three by Thursday.

4. PSAT testing tomorrow during 1st and 2nd blocks.

5. Students who were absent Monday must complete Wordskills unit 5 on pages 52-61 and turn-in Thursday.

cs-Big Baby