We had a good, productive class this week and covered a lot of ground. For our Quick Write, the students were to choose 1 literary character, 1 real person, and 1 place besides Minnesota and write a brief story. Following their short writing exercise, we had some Latin phrases: acta sanctorum (acts of the saints), ad astra per aspera (to the stars through difficulties), ad augusta per angusta (to the majestic (the holy place) through grief (the narrow place)).
Continuing with our study of commas, our Grammar lesson concerned introductory elements. After doing a couple practice sentences, the students were assigned to do the rest as homework.
We're discussing forming good sentences as a part of the Writing portion of the class. Given a worksheet, they are to write a bad sentence and then improve it. On the second half of the worksheet, they're assigned to choose 5 sentences from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and to rewrite them in a different style. They handed in their rough drafts which I will go over this week and hand back next week.
We discussed chapters 3 and 4 of our book. We looked at some of the descriptions of the characters and the setting. They are to continue with chapters 5 and 6. A reminder: As they read the book, they are to be filling out the charts for a character and for a theme along with the first page of the vocabulary chart.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Finish the Grammar worksheet
-- Exercises 1 & 2 of the Building Sentences worksheet
-- Read Chapters 5 and 6 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-- Answer 2 questions for each chapter.
This week's blog entries:
Class Notes
Have a great week! Stay warm!
Mrs. Prichard
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