I had another great week with all of my CHAT classes. I'm so blessed by their hard work and vibrant personalities.
Because we were approaching Valentine's Day, the Quick Write assignment was to write a love letter to something writing or grammar related. Some of them are willing for me to put them on the blog. Until I get those entered, here are some from a previous year: Literary Love Letters.
Our Words of the Day, are the following Latin roots:
bene -- L. good, well -- English derivatives: benefit, benefactor, beneficial, benediction
brevi -- L. brief, shirt -- English derivatives: brevity, brief, abbreviate, abbreviation
Following our beginning of class activities, we discussed the homework that was handed back. I covered some of the common mistakes found in the comma worksheets. We reviewed compound sentences, complex sentences (including subordinating conjunctions & dependent clauses), and series commas. For this week'd comma unit, we looked at restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and phrases. As I told the students as began our adventures into commas, you must learn a lot of other grammar details in order to understand some of the comma rules.
Students handed in the Final Drafts of Narrative Essays. With the writing classes, I have a quick turn around with the essays. That means that the next essay was assigned this week. Our next essay, either a Character Essay or a Themes Essay. (Students choose to write one or the other.) This is one of the most challenging essays that they will write this year because it requires that they understand both the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the essay process. The charts that they were to work on as they read the book will be considered their pre-writes. Consider these the "research" for the essay. An outline or similar plan will also be necessary for writing a clear essay.
Speaking of of our book, we watched the Veggie Tales version of the Jekyll/Hyde story. We will finish the book next week.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- No Grammar (We finished the worksheet in class.)
-- Finish Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
-- No Study Guide Questions
-- Work on the PreWrite for the Character/Themes
This Week's Links:
Class Notes
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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