Data Reflection 09/13/10 − 09/ 17/ 10

09/ 13/ 10

Today in class we reviewed more of what we have been talking about since the first day of school. Today we talked about word choice always being important in every work of writing. The class again brought up the fact that the burden is on the writer, not the reader. There has to be logic in all forms of writing. In every form of writing, the writer has to stay on topic.

09/ 14/ 10

Today in expository reading and writing, we continued to edit scholarship essays. We learned metacognition, which means making a short term memory into a long term memory. While editing the essays we talked about how every sentence has to "hold hands" so it stays connected and the rest of the paper doesn't go off track.

09/ 15/ 10

Today in expository reading and writing we took a break from editing essays and focused on  specific piece of writing. We continued to talk about sentences needing to "hold hands". We learned today that the secret to a clear and readable style is in the first five or six sentences. We also discussed that at the start of every sentence, we have to keep the reader in familiar territory.

09/ 16/ 10

Today in expository reading and writing we went back to editing essays. Mr Hamilton talked to us about a sentence he constructed after class yesterday. He asked us if we knew how many ideas there should be in a paragraph. There should be one idea per paragraph. He also brought up the usage of metacognition in real life, turn short term into long term memory. We learned that we should always start a sentence with a character , then add a nice verb. Mr Hamilton talked to us about combining sentences to create sentence variety.

09/ 17/ 10

Today is friday which meant sustained silent reading. I, cesar bernal, continued in chapters 3 and 4 of The Indian and the Cupboard. These two chapters continued on with Omri discovering more about the toy indian that he can  magically make come to life by putting it in the cupboard.  And I, Josh, read Eyewitness Reptiles, which talks about reptiles and show some interesting facts.