October 18- October 22

Last week was a shorter week because of Columbus Day on Monday and an extremely late start on Wednesday due to testing. We mostly worked on editing our descriptive papers in groups. Ms. Nickow assigned us to look for different writing skills we had discussed in class such as, connotation and denotation, descriptive words, similes and metaphors, and distracting grammar. She also talked to us about the difference between since and then. We use since when it has to do with time, for example, 'Since Obama became president, many things have changed'. Because refers to the reason of something, for example, 'Because McCain lost, Obama became president'. On Friday we were introduced to our narrative unit and had to get back-to-back with partners and talk about things we have done in our lives. Then we had to tell each other what we thought was the most interesting thing mentioned. This gave everyone an idea of what to write about when we start our narratives.