Friday, September 20, 2013

Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 4 (September 19)

Greetings!

We had a good class this week.  It was "Talk Like a Pirate Day," so our Quick Write was a story about anything pirate related.  And our Words of the Day were from a list of pirate terminology:
Ahoy!  ("Hello")
Avast!  ("Check it out.")
Aye, Aye!  ("Yes, sir!")
Beauty  (a pretty woman or a boat)
Bilge rat  (The bilge is the lowest level of the ship loaded with slimy, reeking water -- this would be an insult for a person)
Lubber  (a land lubber is a "land lover;"  someone who would not be comfortable on a boat)
Smartly  (do something quickly; not a comment on intellectual abilities)

The students handed in their Final Drafts of their Descriptive Essay along with their rough drafts and a list of 5 reasons for corrections they made.  I'll read them this week and hand them back next week.  Our next essay is a Personal History Essay.  (I've attached the hand out that I gave them that describes this assignment.)  We spent some time talking about how to write these with thesis statements.

We corrected our most recent grammar worksheet together in class.  I wanted to be sure that they understood the concept of sentence fragments.  Our next worksheet deals with a review of nouns and verbs.  
For our discussion of Animal Farm, we discussed Chapters 3 & 4.  We talked about principles of leadership, manipulative propaganda, and the work ethics of the animals.  

Assignments for Next Week:
-- Write the rough draft of the Personal History
-- Read Chapters 5 & 6 of Animal Farm
-- Complete the Grammar Worksheets about Nouns and Verbs

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard

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