Learning Blog- Tuesday, December 9

What did we do?
Today in class, we made sure that Ms. Lees had the assignments that she needed to do our report cards. We also worked on our paragraph writing booklets. We highlighted descriptive words and transition words and phrases in the descriptive paragraph section, and started to work on the exercise on the left side of the page.

Why did we do it?
We did this to make sure that Ms. Lees had all of the paperwork that she needed, and to also let our peers know if they hadn't handed an assignment in.
Working through the paragraph writing booklet will help to build our paragraph writing skills. This will show us what a proper paragraph should look like. We will learn about formatting and content, and be able to pick out descriptive words and transition words and phrases in a paragraph. This in turn will help us when we are writing our own paragraphs, because we will have had examples and ample opportunity to improve our skills.

Reflections and Connections
Paragraph writing is not a skill limited to Humanities 8. Whether it’s writing a report for science, or an essay in the later grades, paragraphs can be used anywhere. Learning about the topic sentence will be useful for expanding upon ideas. Knowing how to create a paragraph outline can also help you to study for tests because you can break a chunk of text down and look at it from a new perspective.

Homework Reminders
For people in my blog group: Hema is going to be doing the Learning Blog for the first block of tomorrow. Bill will be doing the second block. Charles will be doing his on Friday.
The descriptive paragraphs page is due tomorrow, including the exercise on the left side of the page. We have to brainstorm, create an outline, and write a double spaced draft about an event of incident that you have experienced or witnessed.
We also have to have posted two comments on the blogs by tomorrow.
Ask a study buddy for help if you need it!