Greetings!
A quick recap of this week's class:
Our Quick Write required them to write about Thanksgiving from the perspective of an inanimate object. We had a story about a shredded napkin and a turkey gone to heaven.
I used our Vocabulary Building time to review words from our book, A Christmas Carol. I made a matching exercise using the words and 3 synonyms for each. I allowed them to work together. I enjoyed listening to their diligent conversations about the meanings of the words.
The students handed in their rough drafts for their Biographical Essays. They had few questions which leads me to think that they're growing in their understanding of developing thesis statements and organizing content. I look forward to reading them this week. We did discuss some grammar topics, especially my personal pet peeve regarding sentences using "there is/are/was/were" etc.
We are at Stave Three in our Dickens book. This section features the Spirit of Christmas Present. We found some of our vocabulary words from our earlier exercise which helped us have fuller understandings of the words when found in context. We read portions aloud and discussed Dickens's use of contrasts and use of time to teach his lessons.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read Stave Four of A Christmas Carol.
-- Answer 7 of the study questions for this stave
-- Define and find roots for half of the vocabulary words.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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