Using Webspiration and Graphic Organizers for Expository Essays

Thanks fellow Blogger for sharing this fabulous set of outlining and graphic organizer software: http://mcstech.wikispaces.com/Graphic+Organizers+and+Mindmapping

Creating Characters Using Draw, Caption, Label

Students learned about characterizaion using the draw, caption, label, method.

Expository and Literary Writing

In this class students analyzed prompts to determine whether a text is literary (story) or expository (essay). They broke into groups and reviewed two essays. The first two classes started their own essay about cyber bullying.