Here is a a website to practice paragraph corrections among other grammar items.  It would be good for bell work. http://www.englishmaven.org/Articulate/Beginning%20Paragraph%20Correction%201%20-%20Quizmaker%20output/quiz.html

PLC Showcase

At the end of our semester of work, all PLCs will be showcasing their work at the Wyandotte High School PLC Showcase on Wednesday, December 12th in the Social Hall.  The showcase will be a public demonstration of our learning, collaboration, and results.  Each PLC will showcase work that reflects how your learning and collaboration has impacted student learning.  Each PLC is encouraged to be creative and innovative in their demonstration (student examples would be highly encouraged); however, please be sure the following are addressed through your presentation -
    PLC Focus

Collaborative Actions   

Summary of PLC Learning

Impact on Student Learning

Connections to Future Teaching and Learning

In addition, all staff will have an opportunity to visit each demonstration during the Showcase.  Many outside guests will also be in attendance.  

If your PLC requires any kind of additional resources, please submit any requests for those materials via the comment section to this blog entry by NOVEMBER 9th. You will receive these materials by or before your November 28th meeting, so you will have AT LEAST two weeks to work on organizing your demonstration.

I brought some writing samples today from my students and asked for ideas on how to continue with helping the students learn to write.  Mary gave me some great suggestions, and the idea of working from a picture that the student draws of the event that they are describing.  I will try her suggestions with my students.

Beginning to look at where we are with what kind of writing happens in the classroom and how often.

What audience there is for the writing.

What are 3 biggest problems with student writing.


Then - identify places where we can try specific strategies (from ttms.org pdf on Writing Strategies), try them out, what were the results.


Then - build a recommended model to increase opportunities for writing/strategies for types of writing based on what's worked so far.