What we learned Today

Summary

      Today, Ms. Lees booked the libary for our class. Since the "Mike Cyclone" was not found in the Morris Ward site, she went over it with us today. Also on a smartboard, she reviewed some of the extra informations about the incidents in the Morris Ward in her e-mail, where all the issues in Morris Ward was all grouped together sent by Ms Morris. Then she explained to us that we were going to write a letter to the residents of Morris Ward about one of the  four incidents they had, CCTV, Mike Cyclone, Riot, and the WOLI Supermarket. We were supposed to express our thoughts, opinions and share our feelings to them in our letters. We were told to offer suggestions, disagree and agree to their arguments and thoughts about the issue. Also, encourage some of the arguments thoroughly and explain why you think that. If you relate the letter with your life in a particular way, it can make alot of sense to the reader, too. She told us that it would be more helpful if we went on her blog to go on this site, which explains and describes how to write good letters. After giving us all these details about how to write the letters, we were sent to the computers in the library to start writing our letters. Then after that it was all work block. When it was time to switch class, Ms Lees' final instructions were to finish the letters. We saved our documents to our Google Drive and finished the class.


Learning

The reason Ms Lees told us to write letters was probably because she wanted to see our persuasive writing skills, how creative our persuasions are, how thoughtful we can be, e.t.c. I think this is helpful for us. It builds up our skills of creativity writing and persuasive writing. In my opinion, I think those two kinds of writing really help us improve our writings. When an argument breaks out, we can use these types of writing skills to control the situation by making the arguers understand your way of thinking by smoothly persuading them to not fight and softly giving them your reason. These writings can be very helpful in our own ways! Also, we had a special Flex about choosing clubs but no one came. That's too bad. Through clubs, you guys could've had much more fun in highschool! Well It's not too late, you can always come to flex and ask her about clubs. In our letters, I think Ms Lees also wanted us to know something that happenes outside Canada and she wanted to see how good our researching skills are, too. If we research well, these letter writing will be no problem! Easy Peasy! When she told us to save our files to our google docs, it was because so we don't have to start all over again at home. If you forget what you were writing about, just download your uncompleted letter to your competer and Whoosh! Memories back!

Reflections

Personally, I had a trouble writing the lettter first, but after researching some more imformations and reading some newspaper articles, it really helped me alot! I think that our respons letters should not go too far into disagreeing their arguments. It might offend them alot. Today's class was pretty good. I loved working in peace in the library without any distractions. It refreshed my brain and soon, I began typing faster and faster. Also, when I got stuck I asked people around me about some parts and I got the answers by them as well. Your peers are always helpful! In our letters, we should really check over our work for wrong grammers and spelling. You want your work to be perfect right? You want to make the people in Morris Ward think that we are suuuuuper smart.


Homework

Today's homework was to go home and finish your letter response. The letter is about you responding to the people in Morris Ward about the 4 incidents that happened. Afterwards, your work should be saved on your google docs.

The Incidents

-CCTV Cameras

-WOLI Supermarket

-Riot

-Mike Cyclone


Tips:

Go to Ms Lees' blog and check out the sites she gave us to help us write letters better! Try to make your work be perfect as possible. No spelling or grammer errors. Also, if you need extra help, contact your friends or ask your parents. Better, GET BOOKS!