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I am really impressed by your Portfolio. I am not used to students working with big kids, so what you were able to do with her (the depth) is amazing to me.

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The class worked on types of sentences for quite some time. I was proud of Erica for being able to correctly identify the subjects and verbs. The sentence she created was also correct, there was just a few words misspelled. This showed me that if we just work on a few thing (spelling, capital letters) then she could make great sentences.

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Ms. Moreno has the students write in their journals for "prime time" periodically. Erica goes into really personal things when she writes. She once told me that she enjoys writing because it helps her escape whatever going on. It breaks my heart that she has gone through some of the things she has, but I'm glad that writing helps her cope.

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For this assignment the students had to create a story based on a map of a camp (on the other side of the page). The students were suppose to use 10 prepositions. For this activity I felt like Erica wrote more about an experience that she had with her family, rather than the map of the camp on the other side of the page. She used 10 prepositional words, but they were not used in a way to create a prepositional phrase.

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Erica wrote about an experience when she found out her cousin got into a car wreck. She talked about her emotions during this time. The students had a week to write this essay so they did a rough draft and revise and editing. This improved Erica's writing. I think this shows that when the time is taken she can correct her spelling and prepare a better paper.

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There are some common situations mentioned in Erica's journal entries. She does talk about happier things in this journal entry. I do see that talking about when she was rapped is a common topic when she is writing. I can see this as a positive thing because it helps get emotions out. I can also see it as a negative thing considering it happened so long ago and she still talks about it.

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There were 12 posters with truisms on them throughout the hall way. The students had to go to each poster and copy down the quote then describe what it meant. I feel like Erica took the truisms very literal. Throughout this semester I've seen how she takes things seriously.