Friday's Assignment

Great job, everyone, on completing the dreaded editing checklist, some of you for the first time! Here are your tasks for this afternoon:

1. Use your editing checklist to correct your posts on your blog. Make sure to look for all nine items on the checklist and ask two partners to help you check before clicking on the Update Button.
2. Take dictation from this clip: 00:40 - 01:06
3. Check with 3 partners before posting on your blog.

Write your parenting advice on summer to newcomers. Use a numbered list and include 5 to 10 points.


Sometimes parents give up and call in a professional. What do you call a professional who is paid to take care of the kids? What do you call a superhuman professional who is paid to take care of the kids? What do you call one that goes beyond that?

See the rest of the cartoon here.

So, here are your tasks:

1. Choose two of these dilemmas and study them for 8 vocabulary words. Then use these words in an email to give parenting advice to a struggling parent. Feel free to share from your personal experience with parenting, whether with your kids or maybe your parents! Publish your email on your blog.
2. Read three of your classmates’ blogs and leave a comment on each.
3. When you've finished, watch the Super Nanny video below with a partner and discuss your thoughts about the mom's, the dad's, and the supernanny's roles: