Filled with Glee

It's 8:30 a.m., and the Glee Christmas soundtrack is playing in my livingroom, where the dance party has already commenced. The baby is rolling a Barbie suitcase around, and I have been informed the girls are all ready to go to California! (Other days they're going to Brazil). Welcome to my "day off."

Anyway, lest I forget the blog again, let's review what we did yesterday:

1. First, in groups of four, you wrote the criteria for the narrative essay including expectations for words, sentences, paragraphs, the essay as a whole, and the ideas you will communicate. Please remember that I expect the essay to be edited, peer-edited, and to include a rough and good draft when you hand it in. This entire package will be worth 60 marks.
2. Second, in the same groups, you wrote, and will finish for tomorrow, a ten-question test using the words from one of the vocab units we've studied. The test format is like the one I gave you on the alien-encounter, and you should supply a word bank for the test-takers.

For those of you who have seen me to conference on your essays, I am impressed with the writing so far. Because of the time allotted for this essay, I hope to see a relatively error-free effort sans sentence fragments, run-ons, and spelling errors.

For tomorrow: Hand in your essay! Also bring your textbook for some follow-up questions on the Emerson essay and a chance to read another essay or two in the education section of the text.

Oh- they're singing the Wham song -must run and dance! (Do you even know who Wham is?)