Callie and I have been working hard on her essay writing skills and it is paying off.  She is able now to get her thoughts out in an organized way.  She has so many creative ideas, but has difficulty expressing them on paper.  Her two most recent essays were about Monks in the Middle Ages and Jewish Persecution in the Middle Ages. Both of these were also for our History Unit on the Middle Ages.  We used some wonderful recourses at classzone.com. 

 

She has also been using the Cornell note taking method for researching. We found a great generator here and one that can be more personalized here.  Now if only we could do something about simple spelling errors.