Good evening!
I just finished grading papers from today and wanted to share a few things with you.
We completed a vocabulary assignment today in class that many of the students seemed to have misunderstood. The assignment used the words for the week in a question that they then needed to answer. For example: What did you eat at your most recent meal? The answer should have been whatever food the student had eaten last. Many of the students, instead of answering the questions listed the meanings of the words.
While it is wonderful and necessary for students to know the meanings of our words the most important thing they can learn this year is how to use the words in context. This means that students need to be able to apply the definitions by understanding them in a question as today's assignment required, or identifying their correct usage in a sentence as tomorrow's test is required. Practicing doing this by writing sentences or answering questions in casual conversation you ask them is the best way to practice this at home.
Due to this misunderstanding many students had very low grades on today's assignment which I did clearly explain but students seemed set to write those definitions! Because of this I am not recording this assignment in the grade book. It will be coming home with graded papers tomorrow in their Conduct Folders. Please review it and keep practicing using these words in context even after tomorrow's quiz. This will benefit students greatly.
On another note I was incredibly excited to give and grade our first reading passages of the year over plot and theme today! The grades were fantastic! I was incredibly excited and happy about them!
Thanks once again for ALL that you do! :)
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