We had a good class today. We've developed a good sense of camaraderie and collaboration in this class.
I had the students do a Quick Write today from the College Application Essay Prompts. Our prompt today was #40 -- If you were a door to door salesperson, what would you be able to sell? Again, the goal of the college application prompts is to help students think creatively and reflectively.
In lieu of Words of the Day, I took time to show them a video that was a spoken word presentation about words, conviction, and the tendency of today's society to end declarative sentences with that little lift of the voice that makes it a questions. Though it had a humorous bent, it encouraged people to speak boldly about their convictions. Following that one, we watched one in honor of Reformation Day.
I handed back the rough drafts of their Examples/Illustrations Essays. As they make the revisions and edits, they have two other activities to accompany this. I gave them two handouts for this: a list of common mistakes and an essay rubric. Both are for self-evaluation. On the list of common mistakes, they need to highlight or mark in some way the mistakes that were in their own papers. Using the rubric, I want them to evaluate their own final drafts of their essays.
We spent the bulk of the class time going over the list of common mistakes as I explained many of the Grammar rules related to this list.
During the final minutes of class, I passed out their new books, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A couple of students mentioned that they have a version of this at home. This book is a Dover Thrift book; I like to have all of us have the same book so that I can refer to a page number, and we can all head to the same place in the book. Along with the books, they were given a Study Guide, Vocabulary list, and some introductory information.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Final Draft of Examples/Illustration Essay
-- Highlight or mark items on the list of common mistakes
-- Complete the self-evaluation using the rubric
-- Complete the Parallel Structure Worksheet (using the handout for reference) -- This is for EXTRA CREDIT
-- Read Stave One of ACC.
-- Answer 3 Study Guide questions and find the definitions for 4 Vocabulary words.
This week's links:
Class Notes
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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