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Letter of Recommendation

Standard:  ELA8W2 Technical Writing
Essential Questions:
How do I correspond professionally?
How do I produce technical writing that follows an organized pattern?

Learning Goals:
Students will follow an organizational structure to draft and type a recomendation letter. 
Students will interview for TEENS 4 GREEN.

Today students interviewed each other for TEENS 4 GREEN using formatted questions.  They then worked on completing LETTERS of RECOMMENDATION for the same classmate. Download How to write a RECOMMENDATION letter

HOMEWORK
Complete the LETTER of RECOMMENDATION draft.

Cover Letters due

Job cover letters are due along with resumes on Wednesday, 11/4. Students typed resumes IN CLASS and saved them on their numbers.  Many students used a USB drive to transfer their resumes and WORK on them AT HOME.

 
 COVER LETTERS

• Follow format on PowerPointDownload Cover Letters
• Be sure to have a HEADING, INSIDE ADDRESS, SALUTATION, CLOSING
• No contractions (don't, you'll, I'm. etc)
• Do NOT abbreviate the date - spell it out
• Sign your letter in BLUE or BLACK ink
• Use a COLON after the salutation
• NO indenting - BLOCK LEFT only
• PROOFREAD your letter and check spelling, punctuation

Monday, Nov. 2

NO DGP THIS WEEK - I am sending home practice grammar work so students can work on helping verbs, linking verbs, and predicate adjectives/nouns.

Standard:  ELA8W2 Technical Writing
Essential Questions:
How do I correspond professionally?
How do I produce technical writing that follows an organized pattern?

Learning Goals:
Students will follow an organizational structure to draft and type a cover letter. 
Students will complete a resume and cover letter for a job at TEENS 4 GREEN.

We reviewed the PowerPoint from Friday's lesson (Download Cover Letter PowerPoint Lesson.)
Students completed the DRAFT for the COVER LETTER (Download Cover letter IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT)

Today we completed RESUMES and typed COVER LETTERS. We have been working on this since last Thursday and many students were able to HAND IN these two assignments today.

HOMEWORK
Bring in your typed and completed COVER LETTER on Wednesday, 11/4.
Verb Phrase grammar practice sheet - pages 10, 11

Getting a Job

Here are the notes from class given on Monday and Tuesday:
Download Parts of Resume

Here is a copy of the RESUME WORKSHEET that is due on Thursday, 10/29:
Download Resume template

Week of October 26-30

DGP #10
When Ansley's brother Beck was little, his favorite movie was The Jungle Book.

Monday: parts of speech
Tuesday: independent clause, dependent clause, subjects, predicates, type of sentence
Wednesday: appositive, predicate adjective, predicate noun, rewrite the sentence to make a compound sentence
Thursday: Diagram the sentence

Standard:  ELA8W2 Technical Writing
Essential Question:
How do I correspond professionally?

Weekly Focus Question:
How do I produce technical writing that follows an organized pattern?

Weekly Learning Focus:
Students will follow an organizational structure of a resume to obtain a job. 
Students will examine models of business correspondance.
Students will create a resume and cover letter (letter of application) for a job at TEENS 4 GREEN.

Last week, students worked on APPLICATIONS for EMPLOYMENT (due Thursday, 10/29).
We discussed JOBS and CAREERS and our UPCOMING UNIT on TECHNICAL WRITING.

This week, students took notes on the PARTS of a RESUME (Monday/Tuesday).  download Parts of a Resume
They completed a list of their personal SKILLS, EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE EXTRACURRICULUAR ACTIVITES, and ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

On Wednesday, students will take notes on the PARTS OF A BUSINESS LETTER and HOW TO WRITE A COVER LETTER.

Thursday/Friday - students will work on drafting & typing their RESUMES and COVER LETTERS.
HOMEWORK
Job Applicaton - due 10/29
Resume - due Monday, 11/2 (end of class)
Cover Letter - due Monday, 11/2 (end of class)

NEXT WEEK:  Students will hand in business documents above and THEN work on LETTERS of RECOMMENDATION.  These technical writing documents are PHASE ONE of the Technical Writing Unit.

NEW UNIT

DGP #9
Do any of your friends like to play chess?
DGP sentence for the week.  Tomorrow is the DGP Quiz

Essential Question:
How do I produce technical writing that follows an organized pattern?
Learning Focus:
Students will fill out job applications for TEENS 4 GREEN.
Students will follow the structure of filling out applications (personal info, education, references, employment history).

We discussed the procedures for filling out JOB APPLICATIONS and discussed things to do when filling out applications for employment.
Here is a website with some useful TIPS for FILLING OUT JOB APPLICATIONS:
Tips for Filling out Applications HERE


HOMEWORK
Fill out the job application provided.
DGP #9 quiz tomorrow

Wednesday, Oct. 14th

DGP #8 Adele's cousin took a rafting trip on the Colorado River.
Today we worked on the parts of a sentence (prep phrase, direct object)

Students completed the classwork from yesterday (LESSONS 1, 2 on Main Idea).

TEST ON FRIDAY
There will be a test on Friday on diagramming.

Here are some helpful websites:
Diagramming Tips
 
Interactive Diagramming
 
How to Diagram

Tuesday, Oct. 13th

DGP #8
Adele's cousin recently took a rafting trip on the Colorado River.
1. simple subject/complete subject   2. simple predicate/complete predicate
3. type of sentence    4. purpose of sentence

Essential Question:
How do I read and comprehend informational text?
Learning Focus:
Students will identify text features in articles.
Students will identify main idea and supporting details in informational text (articles).

Students worked on LESSON 1 - Main Idea (handout)

NO HOMEWORK

Monday, Oct. 12th

DGP #8
Adele's cousin recently took a rafting trip on the Colorado River.
Students found the PARTS OF SPEECH

Essential Question:
How do I read and comprehend informational text?
Learning Focus:
Students will identify text features in articles.
Students will identify main idea and supporting details in informational text (articles).

Today we used our LIT book to examine text features in non-fiction text.  We also discussed how to determine the MAIN IDEA and identify SUPPORTING DETAILS.

Wednesday, Oct. 7th

Today students took the GRAPHICS TEST.  This test was an assessment on the lessons we completed last week on how to read diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables.

BOOK POINTS were collected TODAY for Quarter 1.

NO HOMEWORK