A fantastic effort from S2 over the last few periods. A big thank you and well done to you all on your work ethic and behaviour with the cover teacher, Mr Campbell, yesterday – he was most impressed. Mrs Changleng was also impressed with those of you who volunteered to take jotters home so you could continue with your writing – and remembered to bring them back this morning.
Studious concentration from Ford and Angus …
Assessment Tag
Kyle’s ‘Escaping the Cellar’ paragraph
Preparing our Reading Journal for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’…
Step Two of the plan to further develop our Close Reading Skills – Newspaper Analysis…
Session 2015-2016 Analysis Number 1:
Looking for inspiration (or in other words an article that Mrs Changleng wouldn’t say was too short).
Royal News!
Trying to set a record for the number of S3 Blog appearances over the course of a week …
The Process…
A big well done to all of you who had your copies of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ ready for today. Remember to finish reading Chapter One for tomorrow so we can begin our analysis.
Today saw pens and highlighters at the ready as we began our first annotation of our Scottish Set Text work – Norman MacCaig’s ‘Visiting Hour’. Three stanzas down..
Today saw the final time in class for ‘Gatsby’ preparations. Looking forward to the ‘peer teaching’ presentations next week.
The class took full advantage of the warm weather today and spent 80 minutes busily writing Discursive Essays under the shade of some of our playground trees. The final twenty minutes was spent particpiating in the ‘Boggle’ challenge. Mrs Changleng in the lead – just. All to play for next week. Get those words at the ready, folks!
Don’t forget!
Show Me Boards were out in force today to try and reinforce the two essential steps needed to answer an ‘In your Own Words’ question:
Remember
Step 1 – Find the answer in the passage
Step 2 – Rephrase using own words
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