Writing has been with us since the dawn of time. Everyone, or most people, start writing in Pre-K. Well, everybody starts to write by scribbling. We pick up a marker, pen, or pencil and scribble. But as we grow we learn how to write.
This year in Humanities class, we learned how to write better and in more ways. We learned how to write essays, poems, and how to answer short answer questions. During the ELA test, Dacnarie and Loretta were learning how to write better essays. One thing they learned was how to interpret documents and how to put examples into the essay using transition words ( as you can see in our posts! Hehe ). For example, during the ELA test we had to write a essay after reading two stories and we had to make our essay interesting so instead of just using 'for example', 'another example', 'one way', etc. We used 'in addition', 'despite that', 'however', 'but', etc. That was one way we made our essays more interesting using the examples.
In the beginning of the year, Loretta was once a scribbler. Someone who knew how to write but not how to organize her writing properly. In Humanities class, she learned how to organize her writing. For example, in her immigrants essay she used what she learned about organizing and using examples. She labeled her sections and learned what to put in her sections. She had a section in her essay called Living in America and it was about how Chinese immigrants had a hard time living in America and how it was also good living in America.
In the beginning of the year, Dacnarie was also a scribbler. She was never a good speller. But as the year went by she started to get better at spelling and organizing her writing. Like, in her essay for the Social Studies Test. She made a DBQ essay planner that helped her organize her work. Also since her vocabulary got a lot bigger, she was able to spell with no problem. Dacnarie also did the immigrant essay project. Her project was about a Japanese immigrant named Q. Q was break dancer who lived in Japan but later on came to America. It was more difficult for her to express herself in Japan than in America. Dacnarie had to make the essay look like a magazine article. So what she did was put a picture of Q right in the middle of the article and wrote around it. She thought this project was cool and that she started getting better at her writing.
As you can see....well, read... we have gotten better and we will take what her have learned to high school and continue to learn more there also.
