Thursday, January 13

Today in class, the students finished introducing themselves to the class. We've been using PowerPoints presentations to do this. Each student made a PowerPoint where they spoke about their hobbies, goals, cultural background, and family.

After that, the students worked on writing. My 1st and 3rd block classes wrote on a topic: "Think about a career that you wouldn't consider choosing. Write to explain about a career that seems undesirable to you." Students had about 45 minutes to write on the prompt and then I took it up. I will look at this assignment as a way of diagnosing student writing abilities and seeing what they need to work on.

My 4th block class had already written on this topic, so we presented a short mini-lesson on writing prompts and how to answer writing prompts.