It has been another great week in ELA! Students have worked diligently at analyzing the three writing pieces they have written since the start of school. These pieces include:
1. The Value of Writing - Students were asked to make a claim about the value of learning to write well.
2. Digital Citizenship - After understanding the importance of good digital citizenship, students wrote a proposal to our Missouri State Representative, Nick Marshall, about the need for a new law that would outline digital citizenship regulations for all Missourians (schools, businesses, families, etc.).
3. "My World" Story - A peek into the lives of other students around the world resulted in our students composing fantastic "windows" into their own lives through personal narratives.
After all of this work, it was necessary to take a few days to really analyze our performance as writers. In order to do this, we looked at 6 different aspects of our writing:
Station #1: Do we understand the purpose of each piece of writing? Were we able to accomplish this? Our students were honest!
Station #2: Does the structure of our writing fit the prompt? Does our evidence appropriately support our structure? Pulling out the pieces to look at them individually really helped!
Station #3: Does our writing make sense? Does our writing demonstrate a command of conventions? Students realized that reading their pieces out loud and sharing them with a group brought to light some corrections that needed to be made!
After all of that work, we submitted one final essay today for an assessment grade. I can't wait to see all that these students have accomplished!
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