We had a good class this Thursday. It was good to be back after our break. It's good to have a break from some classes so that we can return to our CHAT classes refreshed and ready to work hard for the next few weeks.
Our Quick Write this week was in recognition of World Health Day on April 7. I asked the students to write about a healthy life; it could be either serious or ironic. One student suggested a Buddy the Elf diet consisting of maple syrup, chocolate syrup, and Pop Tarts.
Our Latin Roots of the Day were:
laborare -- Latin, to work -- English derivatives: labor, laborious, collaborate, elaborate, laboratory
lingua -- Latin. tongue, language -- English derivatives: linguist, linguistic, language, linguine (from L. tongue)
luc -- Latin (genitive) light, bright -- English derivatives: lucid, elucidate, translucence, Lucifer
lumen -- Latin, light -- English derivatives: illuminate, luminary, Illuminati, bioluminescence
lux -- Latin (nominative) a light -- English derivatives: luxurious, luxury
I usually take time while students are doing their Quick Writes to hand back their homework. After discussing the Quick Writes, we discussed the assignments. Some students had some old, missing assignments which they handed in. They also handed in their rough drafts of their News Stories. I look forward to reading them this weekend.
We have switched gears with our literature. We began the semester with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, spent a few weeks reading O. Henry's short stories. And now we have a book of poetry. We discussed three specific poems this week: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes; "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost; and "the Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. As we read these poems, we look for meaning and symbolism. For next week's poetry reading, they are to write 2 critical thinking questions for two poems.
We've also made a transition in our grammar. Having finished with some commas work, we're focusing on other bits of punctuation. The worksheets from last week dealt with quotation marks and italics. This week we went over dashes, parentheses, and hyphens. They were given a worksheet and a handout discussing specific hyphen use.
About our worksheets
We worked on 14-3 in class. We finished # 1-10 in class. The final five problems and the other side of the worksheet can be done as extra credit.
We finished part of 15-4 in class; 15-3 should be finished as homework
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read the poems by the following poets:
Wordsworth (p. 12); Browning (p. 19); Bronte (p. 24); Hopkins (p. 31)
-- For 2 of the poems, write 2 discussion questions
-- No essay homework, unless you have not finished the News Story rough draft.
This week's links:
Class Notes
Have a beautiful weekend! Maybe, just maybe it won't snow!
Mrs. Prichard
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