Greetings!
Another beautiful fall day and another great class!
Our Quick Write today was a prompt taken from a list of college application prompts. Some of our Quick Writes at the beginning of class are light-hearted nonsense, but some of it has a purpose. I talked for a while about the importance of the essay in the college application. One of the key aspects of these essays is that they are intended for the student to show some his/her personality and character. Admissions counselors are looking for those characteristics that cause the student to stand out. Today’s prompt was about family traditions and family uniqueness.
Our Words of the Day, taken from my book of foreign words and phrases, were:
Thesaurus – fr. Latin < Greek thesaurus, treasure – a dictionary of synonyms
Thesis – fr. Greek, thesis, to set down – a proposition set down to prove
Thespian – fr, Greek, Thespis, the first Greek actor -- actor
Thug – fr. Hindi, thag, rogue or thief – a gangster, hoodlum, or ruffian
I handed back some Grammar worksheets that weren't very successful. For the most part, the scores on these worksheets were not very good. From a teacher’s perspective, that tells me that we need more instruction in those areas. We’ll be spending more time working with the parts of speech this semester.
We've finished the reading of Animal Farm, and did some more group work this week. Students were assigned to select one character and write out 10 details about this character. I had them gather according the characters they had chosen; they then presented their lists.
We will have a Final Exam during next week’s class for Animal Farm. I will send out a review e-mail later in the week.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Write the Rough Draft of the Examples/Illustrations Essay
-- Bring the Pre-Write to hand in with the Rough Draft
-- Finish the Vocabulary Worksheet for Animal Farm
This week’s blogs:
Class Notes
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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