(Leave notebook out for me to check yesterday's quiz + KBAR, etc.)
Direct Writing Assessment
Fill out student info.
Prewrite: Brainstorm ideas...freewrite/list...organize...
start with action...SHOW!! Explain why!
Follow directions...
They're looking for "insight."
PROOFREAD! (Pretend it's a perfect paper!)

If finished early: Spelling Practice
Read Dragonwings...
Work on study questions...crosswords...
Count words (to record on tomorrow's Spelling Test.)

Spelling #17 Practice:
In each group, one of the words may be misspelled. Decide which, if any, word is misspelled, and then spell the word correctly. If you think all the words in that group are spelled correctly, write "no mistake."(+3 for 20/20, +2 for 19/20, +1 for 18/20.)

1. wept, atheist, vegatables, thorough, no mistake
2. aluminum, athletic, whom, assess, no mistake
3. right, write, valleys, benaficial, no mistake
4. straight, tommorrow, strait, beverage, no mistake
5. ominous, wistfull, breathe, breath, no mistake
6. yeild, assume, athletic, allowance, no mistake
7. bibliography, youth, through, sandwhich, no mistake
8. twelfth, ninth, ninety, strength, no mistake
9. various, vitamens, incessant, cease, no mistake
10. haughty, likeable, loose, quanity, no mistake