We had a good class today. Sometimes we have a lot of discussion, and other times the format is more instructional. Today we had a good mix.
Our Quick Write for the day initially stumped the students. First, I gave the birth date of March 26, 2228. I added the clue that the place in which this person will be born is a small town in Iowa. Then, I wrote Gene Roddenberry on the board. Older persons will by now know that I'm referring to Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk. Today, supposedly, is his birthday. I asked the students to write a science fiction-related Quick Write.
Our Latin Roots for the Day:
junct -- L. to join; together -- English derivatives: conjunction, junction, join, joint, conjoined, conjugation
-ject -- L. to throw (from jacere) -- English derivatives: inject, interject, subject, object, reject, project, dejected, adjective; also jet and javelin have the same roots.
Our next writing assignment is a News Story. We took some time to discuss possible topics for this paper. While not giving many specific topics, we looked at categories of suitable topics for ideas. For example, current events or controversies, media or entertainment topics or reviews, sports events or figures, news-worthy happenings in their own communities, etc. It was asked if a news story could be written about something fictional. IF it is written with sufficient detail and information similar to that of a bona fide news article would contain, then it would be OK. The rough draft of this paper is due after our Easter Break.
We read our final selection of the book of O. Henry Short Stories. While some of the students enjoyed these stories, others were not as thrilled. O. Henry is quirky, and his vocabulary is a mix of every day verbiage and unusual words that you rarely hear. We read "The Ransom of Red Chief" for today. For example, in the first two paragraphs, we encountered these words: philoprogenitiveness and undeleterious.
Our next literature selection is a book of Poetry. Below I will list the poems that the students are to read.
We finished the class with a Grammar worksheet. We've finished with commas and are working with other bits of punctuation. Today's worksheets dealt with italics and punctuating direct quotes. I gave the students 2 worksheets, and only one is due. (14-1 and 14-2)
Assignments for April 9
-- Write the Rough Draft of the News Story
-- Read the following poems:
Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers (p. 53)
William Carlos Williams: The Red Wheel Barrow (p. 48)
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken, Acquainted with the Night (p. 44-45)
-- Finish The Grammar Worksheets (14-1 and 14-2)
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Class Notes
See you all in two weeks!
Have a blessed Easter!
Mrs. Prichard
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