New Year's Resolutions... S.E.W. what's the big idea anyway?

"How To Make New Year's Resolutions You'll Actually Follow"  Click on article below: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/01/how-to-make-new-years-resolutions-that-actually-follow/

Many people follow the tradition of making a New Year's Resolution each year.  However,  how many individuals around the world actually follow through with their resolutions once they are made?  Read the comic strip and article above and then take a stand...  Are New Year's Resolutions a good idea or a bad one? Be sure to support your answers with your Statement, Evidence, and of course to tell me Why!

What did you read over the break?

Read anything good over the break?   If so, I want to know about it!    Provide the title and author of the book and why it is a good read.   We could all use some fresh ideas for this new year!  

MARS statement due January 9, 2012

Let's start fresh...
We are going to add more style to your MARS statements by including some important SEW what qualities to them.  Try to make a Statement,  Evidence, and your WHY whenever you are making a connection, prediction, or inference in your novels.   Next week, you will be given open ended response to work on with your novels with "S.E.W. whats the big idea?" blog post, which is coming soon..

Don't forget to copy and paste your MARS statement into a running Word document so when you are audited, all your work is available for me to check quickly. 

Tuesday Journal... "Let's Catch Up"

You have a journal choice today.  You may write about your favorite gift that you received over the holiday (being sure to explain why) or you may choose to write about something special that happend to you over the holiday break (maybe a family tradition, a trip, some exciting news).   Whatever you choose to write about be sure to add specific details.   We will use this journal activity for a writing activity where your classmates will help you "blow up your piece" and explode a moment.     If you look carefully, I will be adding a journal entry in here too... and I just may "blow up" one of your pieces as well.   Let's have fun with this and use it as a way to catch up, after all we haven't seen eachother since last year!  ;)