Great class, yesterday! Since Monday was President's Day, for the Quick Write, I asked the students to write either about their favorite president or to write 5 questions they might ask any president. While many liked our first president, George Washington, some had preferences for others, e.g. Millard Fillmore and Dwight Eisenhower.
Our Words of the Day were words of Latin origin:
quorum -- the minimum number of persons required for a business or board to make decisions
quid pro quo -- "something for something" or "this for that" -- an exchange of goods or services, where one transfer is contingent upon the other
cave canem -- Beware the Dog
Fac ut vivas -- "Get a life"
And our final phrase is one that often gets brought up when people are joking about knowing Latin.
Semper ubi sub ubi -- translates as "Always where under where"
Students handed in the final copies of their Narrative Essays. I look forward to reading them. Our next essay, and probably the hardest one of the year, is a Theme or Character Essay. Using the book that we're just finishing, students can choose to write about one of the themes presented in the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or they can write about one of the characters. As they have been reading, they were to be taking notes that should help then to find supporting passages. The Pre-Write is due when we next meet -- March 3.
We talked a bit about our book. We are two chapters shy of the ending; our reading for this week brought us to the place where Utterson and the butler, Poole, discover a dead Mr. Hyde. Students will need to finish the book to write their essays AND to take the Final Exam for the book. I've attached the test, which students are to take "closed book."
Finally, during our Grammar portion of the class, we had some more instruction and practice on the following phrases: prepositional, participle, and gerund. We had time to do a few from each section.
We do not have class next week. The next time we meet is March 3.
Assignments for March 3:
-- Theme/Character Essay Pre-Write
-- Take Home Final Exam (Closed book)
-- Read Ch. 9 & 10 (No questions)
-- Finish Vocabulary Chart
-- Grammar Worksheet
Links for this Week
Class Notes
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