### Title: Crafting Effective Paragraphs: Outlining, Peer Review, and Exploring Opinions
### Attendance:
– Total students absent: 13 (I die, Aliyah, Ahmad, Noa Sel, Jian-Chuan Li, Anelia, Niamatua, Jebek, Rascal D, Aytel Kun, plus 3 unnamed)
### Topics Covered:
1. **Outline Practice:**
– Students practiced creating outlines for process paragraphs.
– Emphasized components: topic sentences, supporting details, thesis statement.
2. **Writing Process Paragraphs:**
– Students worked on writing their process paragraphs.
3. **Peer Review Activity:**
– Students paired up for peer review.
– Reviewed for clear topic sentences, supporting details (at least two), and a concluding sentence that restates the topic sentence.
4. **Opinion Paragraphs:**
– Transitioned to discussing opinions in academic writing.
– Analyzed a picture of a city (Seattle) and engaged in questions about nature’s impact on urban life and personal preferences.
5. **Reading and Comprehension:**
– Read and discussed an essay about Seattle.
– Focused on comprehension, vocabulary (e.g., glacier, pioneer, per capita), and true/false questions.
6. **Free-Writing Activity:**
– Students contemplated and wrote about a city they like, considering conveniences, look and feel, and entertainment opportunities.
### Actionable Items:
– **Peer Review Follow-Up:**
– Encourage students to incorporate feedback from peer reviews into their process paragraphs.
– **Vocabulary Development:**
– Reinforce new vocabulary (e.g., glaciers, pioneer, shimmer) and correct pronunciation (e.g., Seattle).
– **Opinion Writing Skills:**
– Prepare to guide students in writing opinion paragraphs about their favorite cities in a future class.
### Homework:
– Complete page 112, exercise two, parts A and B:
– Add at least two new words to each category (attractions, opportunities, cost of living, people).
– Write five sentences using words from the chart to explain why they like the city they chose.