Happy Tuesday!

Hello, friends of learning!
It's great to be back after a weekend of snow shoveling and pie eating!

Today in Français, we started writing our drafts for our goals. After Mme Careen modeled how to write a goal using one of her own personal goals for the year, we had an uninterrupted 10-minute writing block in which to get started. Our goal during our writing time was to get our ideas on paper and not to worry about spelling or to stop about English words as this only slows us down when trying to get our "first thinking" down on paper.

Our next step during our writing block tomorrow will depend on what we accomplished today. Perhaps we need more time to write our draft, perhaps we are ready to start re-reading our draft and making changes to the structure/word choice, perhaps we are ready to start editing for grammar and spelling.

We will continue to approach our writing in small, focused blocks, with the goal of having a finished, perhaps already-edited, draft completed by the end of the week.

Please ask me about my goals for the school year and about what I was able to accomplish in my first 10-minute writing block today.

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Agenda

1. Anime/Manga Club - tomorrow (Wednesday)

2. October Scholastic Orders - due Monday, October 21.

3. Picture re-takes - Monday, October 28 in the afternoon.

4. HPV vaccinations - Wednesday, October 30.