9/20
Today we learned about the placement of commas matters quite a bit in sentences. For example: "today in class, expository reading and writing, 706, we learned about commas..." More editing sentences for better group literacy in the class to prepare us for college.
9/21
Today in class we learned more about parallelism, how you need to have similar ending on words so that the sentence makes sense. More of revising sentences, and focusing on the topic sentence. If the paragraph has more than 1 topic, start a new paragraph!
9/22
In class today Hamilton showed us some things that aren't that big of a deal but they dramatically changed the idea on a story. He said that just breaking up your story into little paragraphs instead of one big one makes your story that much better for the reader to look at.
9/24
In sustained silent reading today i got a new mystery book called 'The Last Coyote".From what i read today it is about a female cop that is at a shrink talking about a past problem she had twice now. My boy christian read the book every young man's battle, which talked about the struggles all young men deal with on a daily basis, and had some ways to deal with them.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
joey and christian
9/13
Today we learned that punctuation, capitalization, and correct wording in writing is crucial. We are still learning, that if something is written poorly, and has a lack of all of the factors above, the burden is on the writer. Proof reading a finished product is important, so to make sure the reader can understand what you're trying to get across.
9/14
Today Hamilton made us do a little exercise taught us that holding hands stands for connecting sentences. What we also came to know is that there is not a sentence that cant be made better then the old one. He also let us know that we have to get used to scratching out sentences if you eventually want a good sentence.
9/15
Today in class we learned about self-correction. When you are jotting down on paper, or brainstorming some ideas, self-correction is when you correct yourself to make a sentence better, while editing it. We learned this is a vital skill we can use later on in life. In addition to that we are still learning about reading and writing as a transaction.
9/16
Today we learned how important combining sentences are. If there is a sentence with a big idea you have to try to add some detail about that sentence in the next sentence to spice up your paragraph.
9/17
In class we read our novels and it really felt like a good atmosphere so everything we read we could really interpret it. Were glad we do this sustained silent reading it really gives us a better vocabulary and gets us to learn punctuation.
Today we learned that punctuation, capitalization, and correct wording in writing is crucial. We are still learning, that if something is written poorly, and has a lack of all of the factors above, the burden is on the writer. Proof reading a finished product is important, so to make sure the reader can understand what you're trying to get across.
9/14
Today Hamilton made us do a little exercise taught us that holding hands stands for connecting sentences. What we also came to know is that there is not a sentence that cant be made better then the old one. He also let us know that we have to get used to scratching out sentences if you eventually want a good sentence.
9/15
Today in class we learned about self-correction. When you are jotting down on paper, or brainstorming some ideas, self-correction is when you correct yourself to make a sentence better, while editing it. We learned this is a vital skill we can use later on in life. In addition to that we are still learning about reading and writing as a transaction.
9/16
Today we learned how important combining sentences are. If there is a sentence with a big idea you have to try to add some detail about that sentence in the next sentence to spice up your paragraph.
9/17
In class we read our novels and it really felt like a good atmosphere so everything we read we could really interpret it. Were glad we do this sustained silent reading it really gives us a better vocabulary and gets us to learn punctuation.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Our amazing books
Today we had sustained silent reading. I read "THE COLOR OF LAW" by Mark Gimenez. I would have to say the beginning of this book has been really good. Hamilton told me this was a mystery book and just by reading the prologue it already has me guessing. Christian's book is called "every young man's battle" by Stephen Arterburn. He is kinda plain with his detail. He just told me it was a good book.=(
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Today was whatever
Christian and I feel today in class we didn't not learn nothing! There was just to many side conversation and we got off topic to much.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
It is not yet over
In class Christian and I were learning about concrete writing. I think that we actually had a broad idea on what were talking about. Day by day we are learning more then we thought. Hamilton let us know that what he is teaching is a direct class invented by the Cal State system. He told us a story about Flora and how she came back to him letting him know that everything he did teach was exactly on the test!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Editing
In 2nd period expostiory reading and writing, Joey and Christian learned that you need to write according to your audience, and that too many big words can confuse the reader. Solid, concrete and understandable words are the structure of a good passage. Question: how can we better our vocabulary?
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