Friday, November 21, 2014

Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 13 (November 20)

Greetings!

We had an enjoyable class this week.  They're not only working hard, they are engaging well in class discussions.

Our Quick Write this week was inspired by a certain star's first appearance:  in 1928 Mickey Mouse premiered in Steamboat Willie, the first talking animated film.  I asked the students to write about their favorite animated film, either a movie or a TV series.

Our Words of the Day today were:
bayonet -- fr. French, Bayonne -- a steel blade attached to a rifle
bazaar -- fr. Persian, bazar, market  -- a marketplace or shopping quarter
bearnaise -- fr. French Bearn, a district in SW France  -- a sauce of egg yolks, butter, vinegar, and herbs
beau -- fr. Latin, bellus, pretty -- a boyfriend

Note:  In class I was wondering about the difference between a hollandaise sauce (a word from last week) and a bearnaise sauce.  Here's what Wikipedia says:

Bearnaise is considered to be a 'child' of the mother Hollandaise sauce, one of the five sauces in the French haute cuisine mother sauce repertoire. The difference is only in their flavoring: Béarnaise uses shallot, chervil, peppercorn, and tarragon, while Hollandaise uses lemon juice or white wine.

Next week we will be having our Word of the Day test.  I will send out the complete list of our weekly words this weekend.  The test will have a combination of multiple choice, matching, true/false, and fill-in-the-blank questions.  They should read through the list and re-familiarize themselves with the words.  Increasing our vocabularies is meant to be fun, so I don't want anyone to lose sleep over this quiz.

They handed in the Rough Drafts of their History or Biography Essays.  I will have those ready for them at the next class, December 4)

We are continuing through A Christmas Carol; this week we reviewed the plot from the previous weeks and discussed the appearance the Ghost of Christmas present.  Dickens is so wonderfully descriptive, so I had the students close their eyes and try to picture this character as he first appears in the chapter, sitting on a throne made of food.  We also watched a short bit again from the Muppets version.

Assignments for Week 14 (December 4)
-- Read Stave 4 (2 Study Questions & 4 Vocabulary)
-- Review the Words of the Day

This week's Class Notes post

Have a great Thanksgiving,
Mrs. Prichard

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