Thursday, March 6

1. MUG Shot Sentence #19 - 11 corrections

In 1963 African-american leader Martin Luther King jr said I have a dream...that my four little children will oen day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin. But by the content of their character.

2. Vocabulary - We'll review this week's words...and the parts of speech. We'll also watch a segment of Grammar Rock - the segment about nouns.

3. Reading - Since we've been in the PC lab this week, we haven't taken a lot of time for our reading, so today we'll spend some extra time.

4. Topic Sentences & Paragraphs:
a. Read a paragraph about alligators and divide it into paragraphs. Explain why you made the choices you did.
b. Answer the questions "What is a paragraph? What is a topic sentence?" We'll write a formula for a topic sentence.
c. We'll look at some sentences and decide whether or not they fit the formula.
d. On the pink handout we're using, there's a sheet listing some traits about a dog. We're going to "design" a class pet and then, as a large group, write a topic sentence and then a paragraph describing it.


ASSIGNMENT: For Tuesday (Monday we'll be back on the computers), you are going to follow the same procedure we used for writing the paragraph about the dog to do a paragraph about your favorite relative. The relative must be human! Sorry, you can't use your pet. Use the pink handout sheet I give you and write the completed paragraph in the section on the top half of the sheet, and then list each individual sentence in the section at the bottom. DO NOT USE THE BACK SIDE OF THE SHEET. IF YOU RUN OUT OF ROOM, USE ANOTHER SHEET OF PAPER!! describing it.