Reading and Writing This Week

This week we started working on our persuasive essays.  My topic is how working in groups effectively is important.  We learned the so many different strategies like the tree question in a row strategy.  For example, my topic sentences are Wouldn’t most people like to have a peaceful group meeting without someone being exclusive?  Can’t everyone just do their work?  What about the people who don’t compromise at all?  If you think about it, most people want to be heard.  We also learned to integrate a bigger variety of transitional words.  In my power plan, organizational way of wring non-fiction, I think I pushed myself a lot more.  Instead of writing just a bullet point or a simple sentence, I put a few sentences and a few transitional words to be more prepared for writing a first draft.  In reading, we set reading goals.  These goals were different from last year’s goals because it was about the amount of reading not thinking about my reading.    So far I have successfully met the goals I have made for myself.  I am making sure that the goal is realistic because I don’t want to be up all night or wanting to read way more.  I got my 3^rd pizza slice for reading The Candymakers by Wendy Mass.  This book was a very long one but very interesting.  That is basically what happened in RLA this week.