Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Writing 1 Class Notes -- September 6

Greetings!

We enjoyed our second class of Writing 1 for this semester.  After starting the class with prayer, we wrote our Quick Writes using the cards from a game called "Man Bites Dog" in which players are given cards with common words found in newspaper headlines.  The students were to arrange the words into their own headlines and start a short newspaper story to go with it. 

Our Mystery Word for the day was "bad hair day."  These words are picked randomly from a "Word a Day" book.  Apparently, this is a new addition to the New Oxford Dictionary.

We started our class discussions with some grammar.  Four students wrote bad sentences and four more came to the board to correct the sentences.  We listed and discussed the 8 parts of speech:  nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, interjections, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions.  It was a good review of some grammar basics.

We had a short discussion about the rough drafts of the personal essays they handed in today.  I explained to them that rough drafts are learning experiences.  They shouldn't be surprised to see lots of red marks on their papers; they should also make the necessary corrections for the final draft.

The class had only been assigned the introduction to Animal Farm, but all the students were ready to discuss the "set up" for the book.  We discussed further Orwell's motivation for writing this book that mirrors some of the aspects of the Russian Revolution.

Assignments for Next Week:
-- Write short paragraph answers to the following questions:
      --  What makes a good leader?
      --  When should a government be overthrown?
--  Read Chapters I & II.

Have a great week!  Fall is here and I"m loving it!
Tammy Prichard

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