I don't know about all of the students, but I feel that it's good to be back in school again. Our Quick Write for the day was weather-related because of the snow and high winds in the northwest portion of the state: Imagine you are stuck somewhere in a blizzard. What would you do? Write about it. For those who are new to the class, we do a these Quick Writes at the beginning of every class. They help to jump start our brains into a writing mode. Often, we usually do Words of the Day, a selection of foreign or unusual words and phrases so that we can expand our vocabularies. We didn't do any words this week because we had a lot to cover.
I handed out a lot of papers this week:
-- Spring Semester Syllabus
-- Introduction to Robert Lewis Stevenson
-- Study Guide to The Strange Adventures of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-- Narrative Essay Guidelines
-- Grammar Worksheets
We discussed the general plan for the semester that included the writing assignments, the literature, and the grammar plan. I will attach those documents with this e-mail, with the exception of the grammar worksheets, and will put them on the Dropbox site. I am using a supplemental workbook published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston which is a fairly big document. I have the whole workbook on Dropbox, so if a student is missing an assignment, you can download the workbook and print the needed pages.
Resources for the class:
-- Weekly Class Notes
-- Weekly Blogs (same content as the Class Notes)
-- Dropbox document storage site
-- Engrade (an assignment and grading website)
(If you have any questions about these, let me know. Some students already have Engrade accounts through other classes. If that is the case, let me know the student number, and I can adjust the number for the account for this class.)
Our first essay for the semester is a Narrative Essay. An essay of this kind is, in a sense, a story with a purpose. The students are to write about the events with a thesis in mind. How was this event significant or important? Were lessons learned or lives changed?
We will be using three books this semester: The Strange Adventures of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Jekyll/Hyde), The Short Stories of O. Henry, and Great, Short Poems. We're starting with the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde book.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Narrative Essay Pre-Write
-- Read the background information about Robert Louis Stevenson
-- Read Chapters 1 & 2 of Jekyll/Hyde
-- Answer 2 questions for each chapter from the Study Guide
-- Grammar Worksheets 4-1 and 4-2.
This week's blog posts:
Class Notes
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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