Mr. Rennie's Class

  After working with Google Docs, Toondo and Wordle the students have developed a few skills and avenues through which they can represent their learning and ideas with more variety. This coming week the kids will be applying their recently introduced writing skills to a memoir piece. They have worked with teacher provided samples and their own, to practice skills and revise their work by improving leads, adding thoughts and feelings and providing descriptive detail. They will create a new piece or rework a previous effort and apply what they've learned as writers. They will then proofread it with a partner, word process on Google and present it for marking. Their choices will determine how much work and time is required since reworking an existing story will take far less time. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they produce as many have already gotten right to work eagerly when I gave them the heads up this week.