October 8, 2013

Objective: I can use evidence from the text to support a purpose statement, using complete sentences, and explaining my ideas. To start class today, we watched two videos on the Great Migration: The first one gave an over view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qqxGZ-V-hU, and the second provided a voice to those moving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--8N42vDDTM. We discussed why so many African Americans moved, and whether the move was worth the effort. The students then re-read the artcile from yesterday before writing a parragraph supporting a position statement. The sentence frames that students used for the paragraph are: I think that _(position statement)_. The first reason is __(evidence)___. This shows that __(explain the evidence). The second reason is _(evidence)_. As you can see, __(explain the evidence). In conclusion, _(position statement)_, because _(restate evidence)_. Warm-up: Capitalize proper nouns: names of people, places, or things (including holidays). Rewrite the sentences. Example: Wish Mary a happy valentines day! --> Wish Mary a happy Valentine's Day! 1.Yesterday, olivia gave me a parrot from queretaro, mexico. 2.On october 25th, asms will have a party. 3.On december 25th, i will say merry christmas and a few days later i will wish you a happy new year’s day.