Writing 1 Class Notes -- March 13

Greetings!

Happy Pi Day!  Besides eating a nice piece of pie, you could learn a song or rap for the day!

Yesterday was a good day for the class.  For the Quick Write, we expanded a short paragraph by adding adjectives and adverbs.  The end results were somewhat overburdened with wordiness, but it was a good exercise.

We spent time going over the rough drafts of their Editorials/Short Persuasive Essays.  As a class, we discussed some of the common problems that came up as I corrected them.  It seems that the same difficulties have come up over the last few papers, so I'm including some links to other web resources that might be helpful:
Parallel constructions:  #1 or #2 or #3
Compound Sentences:  #1 or #2
Agreement of Nouns and Pronouns:  #1 or #2 or #3

After our writing discussion, we looked at our book, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.  Sometimes the best way to get a good handle on a book is to simply look at the series of events.  This gives us a framework for exploring characters and themes.  I put a large piece of paper and we taped up the events in order of occurrence.  As part of next week's assignment, I gave them the same list of events for them to figure out what chapter the event occurs.

Assignment for Next Week:
-- Read ACY up through Chapter 37.
-- Write up 6 more Baseball Questions
-- Finish the Take Home Quiz and fill in the chapter numbers for the events.
-- Finish the final copy of the Editorial/Short Persuasive Essay.

Have a great week!  Enjoy this incredible weather!
Mrs. Prichard