Writing Powerful Personal Responses

After returning the personal responses students wrote last class, I asked the class to consider some sample personal responses and to think about what made them powerful, or not.  We used the Ministry Quick Scale for Reading Literature to evaluate each sample.  After we discussed a strength and an area for improvement for each sample, I had students revisit their own response, and to consider my highlighted comments on their rubric.  We will write a second personal response after our Literature Circle meeting on Wednesday.

Then, students worked through a review of run-on sentences and comma splices, which is due at the beginning of Wednesday's class.  There will be a quiz checking students' ability to correct run-on sentences and comma splices next week.