Yesterday was a great day, weather-wise and class-wise.
I gave the students two options for the Quick Writes. September 26 was John Chapman's birthday; most know him as Johnny Appleseed and remember that he traversed our young country planting apple trees. The second option was to comment on the fact that October is National Pizza Month. I heard from the students their favotie apple recipes and favorite pizza combinations.
Our Words of the Day included:
chapeau -- fr. French chapeau, "hat"; fr. Latin cappellum, cap -- a hat
charadae -- fr. French, charra, "chatter" -- an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance.
charisma -- fr. Greek charis, "gift/grace"-- an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance.
The students got back their rough drafts, and as is my policy, we go over common mistakes found in those rough drafts. One of the best ways to learn grammar is to learn in in the context of their own writing. For this discussion, we covered introductions/conclusions, contractions, punctuation in dialogue, and semicolons.
In the final minutes of class we talked about Animal Farm. We read the portion that shows now Napoleon has become ruthless and executes some of the animals. We also discussed how the animals were not noticing the changes that were happening and were allowing themselves to be led by such wicked leaders.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Final Draft of Personal Essay
-- Pronouns Homework
-- Read Chapters 9 & 10 of Animal Farm
-- Answer 2 Study Questions and fill in 3 Vocabulary words
Links for This Week:
Class Notes
See you next week! Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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