Week 15: Writing your final draft
Now that you've written your second draft, it's time to look at the corrections I made for you and write your final draft. Remember, you should not be making any new additions to your second draft - you should only be changing the corrections I made for you (in red) and re-writing your second draft with those corrections.
Overall, I'm very happy with how everyone has done! I have made a competition in the class - the ten students with the best handwriting will get a packet of french fries at lunch!
Homework tonight is to finish your FINAL DRAFT. Make sure you check the corrections from your second draft carefully, and make all of the corrections that I suggested! Please hand it in tomorrow (Tuesday, 28/2). You should probably have finished in class already, so you don't need to do it at home.
Overall, I'm very happy with how everyone has done! I have made a competition in the class - the ten students with the best handwriting will get a packet of french fries at lunch!
Homework tonight is to finish your FINAL DRAFT. Make sure you check the corrections from your second draft carefully, and make all of the corrections that I suggested! Please hand it in tomorrow (Tuesday, 28/2). You should probably have finished in class already, so you don't need to do it at home.
Week 14: Feedback and writing your second draft
Unfortunately, we missed our double lesson on Monday, so we didn't have a lot of time to work on our second draft in class today. Last week, however, we were able to pass our first drafts around our groups and get feedback about eachother's first draft. And I have to say, your feedback was AMAZING! Super helpful and constructive! Fantastic job!!!
Now, I also gave some feedback on your first drafts, and for a lot of you, I asked you to add more personal opinions about your topic. For the conclusion, you can add a sentence like "I think that..." which will add a bit of a personal touch while wrapping up your writing. This is not always appropriate, but I think that it works in this case.
Also, don't forget to include your introduction at the beginning of your second draft. Remember, you wrote your introduction on p.15
Homework is to complete your second draft on GN p.19, and hand it in on MONDAY, 27/2.
Now, I also gave some feedback on your first drafts, and for a lot of you, I asked you to add more personal opinions about your topic. For the conclusion, you can add a sentence like "I think that..." which will add a bit of a personal touch while wrapping up your writing. This is not always appropriate, but I think that it works in this case.
Also, don't forget to include your introduction at the beginning of your second draft. Remember, you wrote your introduction on p.15
Homework is to complete your second draft on GN p.19, and hand it in on MONDAY, 27/2.
Week 13: Writing your first draft
You all did a great job writing your introductions. Now, you need to write your first draft. In today's lesson, we learned how to turn the facts that we have found into paragraphs. Have a look at the examples below. Remember to indent each new paragraph, and include some extra information about each fact (supporting details).
Your homework is to complete p.16 (your first draft) and hand it in on Wednesday, 15/2.
Your homework is to complete p.16 (your first draft) and hand it in on Wednesday, 15/2.
Week 12: Writing your introduction
You have already chosen a topic to write about and also researched five interesting facts about your topic - great job!!!
Now it's time to write the introduction to your process writing, which is what we worked on in today's lesson. I explained that the introduction should briefly explain the main idea, and that you shouldn't include any of your interesting facts in your main idea. The interesting facts that you researched are going to be the details that you write about later.
So for the introduiction, we worked on creating a simple topic sentence that introduces your main idea. For example, if I'm writing about baseball, I will start by saying something like: Baseball is a fun sport that many people play. It is played on a field called a "diamond".
You can also give some personal opinion about your topic when you write your introduction, for example. Baseball is a fun sport that many people play. It is played on a field called a "diamond". Baseball is my favorite sport, because I love the sound of the bat hitting the ball, and I love the smell of the dirt and grass on the field.
Remember, the main idea is like an umbrella. It covers all of the details!
Homework is to complete your introduction on p.15 in your Guiding Notes book and hand it in tomorrow, 7/2.
Now it's time to write the introduction to your process writing, which is what we worked on in today's lesson. I explained that the introduction should briefly explain the main idea, and that you shouldn't include any of your interesting facts in your main idea. The interesting facts that you researched are going to be the details that you write about later.
So for the introduiction, we worked on creating a simple topic sentence that introduces your main idea. For example, if I'm writing about baseball, I will start by saying something like: Baseball is a fun sport that many people play. It is played on a field called a "diamond".
You can also give some personal opinion about your topic when you write your introduction, for example. Baseball is a fun sport that many people play. It is played on a field called a "diamond". Baseball is my favorite sport, because I love the sound of the bat hitting the ball, and I love the smell of the dirt and grass on the field.
Remember, the main idea is like an umbrella. It covers all of the details!
Homework is to complete your introduction on p.15 in your Guiding Notes book and hand it in tomorrow, 7/2.
Week 11: Introducing the "writing process"
Hi everybody and welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful Lunar New Year holiday!
In this week's lesson, I introduced process writing - what we will be working on for the rest of the term.
You have already chosen a topic that you are interested in. A couple key points that I want you to focus on when you start writing:
In this week's lesson, I introduced process writing - what we will be working on for the rest of the term.
You have already chosen a topic that you are interested in. A couple key points that I want you to focus on when you start writing:
- First, when you research facts about your topic, make sure that they're special and interesting.
- Second, do not write about things that your audience already knows. Don't write things like "Dogs are pets." or "Elephants are big." These facts are not interesting and your audience will already know them.
Week 9: Elephant facts and preparing our elephant signs
Wednesday's single lesson: Today I showed some examples of some really good elephant signs from another class (see below) and gave the class time to research elephant facts on the iPads.
Homework is to complete your elephant sign and hand it in after the Chinese New Year holiday (Monday 30/1).
Homework is to complete your elephant sign and hand it in after the Chinese New Year holiday (Monday 30/1).
This week we read about elephants in our Daybook and took notes in our Guiding Notes about what we read. Over the Chinese New Year holiday I will assign the task on page 12 - making an informational sign about elephants. Today we used the iPads to research elephant facts and start making signs on Canva. You can continue to work on your sign at home if you like, but they will be due after the CNY holiday. Have a look at the examples of elephant signs below. Your sign should have a mix of pictures and information.
Today's homework is to complete p.11 in your Guiding Notes and hand it in tomorrow (17/1).
Today's homework is to complete p.11 in your Guiding Notes and hand it in tomorrow (17/1).
Week 8: Paraphrasing and using our own words to talk about things we have read.
This week we continued learning about the importance of using our own words to talk about things that we have read. In the PowerPoint, there is a video about paraphrasing. This video does a good job explaining why we should paraphrase, and how to do it. On GN p.9, I explained to the class that they should read the two paragraphs and write down what the author is trying to say in the student's own words. It can be something as simple as "The author is trying to tell us about how music is made." or something more detailed - it doesn't natter, as long as you use your own words.
Homework is to complete p.9-10 in your Guiding Notes book and hand it in tomorrow (11/1).
play.blooket.com/solo?id=63a13354aa36ab5553289189
Homework is to complete p.9-10 in your Guiding Notes book and hand it in tomorrow (11/1).
play.blooket.com/solo?id=63a13354aa36ab5553289189
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Week 5: Retelling the passage about jellyfish
Today we reviewed some of the difficult words in the passage on page 7 of our guiding notes book. Part of the homework is to underline and look up three words that you don't understand from the passage and write down the definitions on p.22. This will help you understand the passage better, and it will help when you retell the passage in your own words. Have a look at the slide below - it will help you understand how you should do your homework on p.8.
Homework is to complete p.8 in your guiding notes - retelling the passage from p.7 IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Please don't copy the sentences from the passage. You should hand in this homework on Jan 3rd when we come back to school.
Chrisitmas Blooket! play.blooket.com/solo?id=63a00b83aba6c7c54ed76b65
Homework is to complete p.8 in your guiding notes - retelling the passage from p.7 IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Please don't copy the sentences from the passage. You should hand in this homework on Jan 3rd when we come back to school.
Chrisitmas Blooket! play.blooket.com/solo?id=63a00b83aba6c7c54ed76b65
Week 4: Sleep is for everyone
Today we learned about the sleep habits of different animals. We also talked about the vocabulary from the unit, and we watched a video and read a passage about jellyfish. You can test yourself on the vocabulary by trying to name the pictures below.
The purpose of the jellyfish passage was to get students visualizing what they read in the passage and drawing a picture to describe it. You should also underline or highlight three or more words that you don't understand. There are quite a few challenging words, so you shouldn't have a problem doing that. In the next lesson, we will look up the words in a dictionary and the class can write the definitions down on p.22, but in the meantime, it would probably help to translate the words into Chinese and write the Chinese word for each down.
Homework tonight is to complete p.6-7 in your Guiding Notes and hand it in tomorrow, 13/12. We were able to cover these pages in class, so you should already be finished.
The purpose of the jellyfish passage was to get students visualizing what they read in the passage and drawing a picture to describe it. You should also underline or highlight three or more words that you don't understand. There are quite a few challenging words, so you shouldn't have a problem doing that. In the next lesson, we will look up the words in a dictionary and the class can write the definitions down on p.22, but in the meantime, it would probably help to translate the words into Chinese and write the Chinese word for each down.
Homework tonight is to complete p.6-7 in your Guiding Notes and hand it in tomorrow, 13/12. We were able to cover these pages in class, so you should already be finished.
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Week 3: Using our OWN WORDS to talk about pictures.
In today's lesson, we learned how to use our own words to talk about pictures. This is the first step in the next task of re-telling a text using our own words. You can practice it at home the same way that I did in class, by looking at an Oxford Reading Tree book, covering the words, and describing the pictures on each page using their own words.
We continued to practice it in class with pictures I shared from my trip to Japan over the term break with Mr. Marler and Mr. Geiger ヽ(✿゚▽゚)ノ
The class did an AMAZING job giving titles to the pictures and making sentences. Here's what they came up with in the lesson:
Homework is to complete p.5 in your Guiding Notes book. Please hand it in tomorrow, (Tuesday, 6/12). Please bring your Storm Castle ORT book as well and put it in your locker if you haven't already.
We continued to practice it in class with pictures I shared from my trip to Japan over the term break with Mr. Marler and Mr. Geiger ヽ(✿゚▽゚)ノ
The class did an AMAZING job giving titles to the pictures and making sentences. Here's what they came up with in the lesson:
Homework is to complete p.5 in your Guiding Notes book. Please hand it in tomorrow, (Tuesday, 6/12). Please bring your Storm Castle ORT book as well and put it in your locker if you haven't already.
Week 2: Identifying details and the main idea again
In today's lesson we talked about the importance of using our own words to re-tell parts of a text (like on p.4 of last week's homework). Have a look below at the example that we did in class. We also worked in pairs to identify the main idea and details in a text from their Oxford Discover book. Everyone did a really good job! There's no homework this week, but you can play the Blooket that I created about main idea and details. Click here to play it: play.blooket.com/solo?id=6380651b367513f1220f12a0
Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week!
Have a great weekend and I'll see you next week!
Week 1: Details (And revisiting the main idea)
This week, we revisited the "main idea" and also talked about "details".
When re-telling the main idea and details, I want you to use your own words.
For example, in the homework (GN p.4), the main idea of the passage is: Your brain is a very important part of your body.
When you re-write the main idea in your own words, I DON'T want you to say something like "Your brain is very important." or "Your brain is a part of your body" - these are too close to the original sentence in the text. What you can do is have a look at the word "important" and look up similar words online. You might say something like: "Our brains can do many different things." or "Our brains work like supercomputers."
For the homework on p.5, the most important thing is that you write your own words and don't copy the sentences from the text.
Homework is to complete p.1-4 in your guiding notes and hand it in tomorrow, 25/11. We've done most of it in class already, so it should be easy.
When re-telling the main idea and details, I want you to use your own words.
For example, in the homework (GN p.4), the main idea of the passage is: Your brain is a very important part of your body.
When you re-write the main idea in your own words, I DON'T want you to say something like "Your brain is very important." or "Your brain is a part of your body" - these are too close to the original sentence in the text. What you can do is have a look at the word "important" and look up similar words online. You might say something like: "Our brains can do many different things." or "Our brains work like supercomputers."
For the homework on p.5, the most important thing is that you write your own words and don't copy the sentences from the text.
Homework is to complete p.1-4 in your guiding notes and hand it in tomorrow, 25/11. We've done most of it in class already, so it should be easy.
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