Friday, September 10, 2010

Today, we discussed the questions from "Penny in the Dust". We then worked fairly indepthly on how to chrate a character sketch (find the evidence/actions and then develop what we think about their character from that).

I then did some mini lessons on the following common mistakes I am seeing in students' writing:

* using "could have" and "would have" instead of "could of" and "would of".

* using "until" instead of "till".

* not starting answers with the word "yes" when they are to be answered fully.

* using "because" instead of "cause".

We then worked more in-depth on the struggles students are having with "there", "their", and "they're". I handed out an explanation of how to use these properly as well as questions that were due today. If you were not here, look up the rules for these on the Internet and then do the questions that follow:

INSTRUCTIONS: Examine each of the following sentences. If they are correctly using “there”, “their”, or they are, write correct in the space provided. If they are not used correctly, rewrite the sentence correctly. Make sure that you spell all the words correctly as I will dock you marks if you don’t. Also, make sure you put capitals at the beginning of the sentences and periods at the end.

1. There hanging from a pole.

2. They look sad because they don’t want to be there.

3. One can see from the photograph that there looking at something.

4. No one makes there kids do something they don’t want to.

5. The kids are only doing this because their parents put them there.

6. This is probably a normal part of there lifestyle.

7. How is what their doing going to affect them in later life?

8. They should be hanging out with they’re friends.

9. Children need their time to play.
10. Governments need to tone down what they are doing as there children need to have lives.
11. I think it is wrong for China to bring such young children into a stressful environment like this because their just kids.