Friday, March 22, 2013

Writing 1 Class Notes -- March 20 (Week 9)

Greetings!

We had a good week of classes this week.  We started the class with a more active Quick Write.  Using the adjective cards from my game, Funglish, the students were assigned to write sentences using the adjectives.  When the first round of sentences were written, we passed our cards down the table and wrote new sentences using the new set of adjectives.    Some students wrote sentences that told stories (albeit very unusual) and some wrote individual sentences for each adjective.

The students handed in their final drafts of their Theme or Character Essays along with the worksheets for the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, that they had been working on.  These essays have been very thoughtful and I look forward to reading over them during the Spring Break. 

Our next essay will be a News Story.  We took a good amount of time to discuss this. The essays are to be concerned with a topic that is current, interesting and news-worthy.  For the sake of comparison, they should consider an article that might be appropriate for a magazine rather than a newspaper.  They will need to do a little research for this essay.

In class, we worked through a review of commas.  The rules and guidelines are beginning to stick.  We will go over some more punctuation and end the semester with an exam.

Our remaining class time was spent discussing the two O. Henry stories assigned for this week, "A Retrieved Reformation," and "The Pimienta Pancake."  These stories, like the previous ones, are humorous and have quirky endings.  Next week we will read one of my favorites, "The Ransom of Red Chief."

I'm sure I don't need to remind you, but we don't have classes next week.

Assignments for April 3 (Week 10)
-- Read "The Ransom of Red Chief" (p. 17) and another story from the book of your choosing.
-- Fill out both sides of the 2 worksheets that were handed out.
-- News Story Essay Pre-writing.  This will include some research along with an outline or mind-map.

This week's blog
Class Notes
News Story worksheet


Have a great Spring Break!!
Mrs. Prichard

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