Tues. Oct. 18, 2016: Review of Reflection and Active Reading

Today, students were reminded of the following expectations:

Always use pen for all writing assignments and pencils for active reading, multiple choice tests, and grammar assignments.

Always use full sentences when answering questions unless otherwise stated. Take the question and flip it to start your answer:

What colour is your house?

The colour of my house is red.

Numbers up to 100 are to be spelled out. 71 % is wrong; seventy-one per cent is correct

Two thousand and sixteen is wrong.

Periods must be at the end of a sentence (or other end-punctuation) and capitals must be at the beginning. Capitals must also be on the pronoun “I.”

If the teacher cannot read it, it isn’t effective communication. Neatness counts.

Don’t write in either the left or right margins of a page.

Active reading:

It is like active reading a poem except you don’t have to do the rhyme scheme and deviation/stanza/line stuff.

You still have to:

Analyze the title

highlight the five Ws and other important information as you read

highlight unknown words and define as you read

highlight and define literary devices as they appear.

A number of students did not do these steps. I am giving you tonight to complete them on the reading "Harrison Bergeron."