My apologies for the lateness of this e-mail. We had a busy weekend with a conference and out of town guests.
Our Quick Write was an interesting one. I told the students that they could ask me three questions, and I would answer one of them. The questions have been fun to answer: what's my favorite Bible verse? what's my favorite food to cook? where my favorite vacation spot? and finally, who is my favorite student? (I weaseled out of that one!)
Our Words of the Day:
New words:
nutriceutical -- foods used for healing
retail therapy -- shopping for comfort
webliography -- a list of electronic documents
Old words
humble pie -- forced humility; to be forced to apologize
wiseacre -- a person who pretends to be smart but is obnoxious
kickshaw -- a delicacy or trinket
The Rough Drafts of the Themes or Character Essays were handed in this week. This is probably the hardest essay they will write all year. For all of the other essay they can choose their own topics. For these, they not only don't have a choice, but they have to read the book while keeping track of good details from the book to use for support in their essays. I will go over these this week and have them back for them next Thursday.
We have started into our next book, The Gift of the Magi, and Other Short Stories by O. Henry. Our stories for this last week were "The Gift of the Magi" and "After Twenty Years." We used the discussion questions that they wrote for our class discussion. Next week, students are to fill out short story worksheets instead of writing discussion questions.
We are continuing to work on phrases for the Grammar section of the class. We did a quick review of Prepositional, Participle, Gerund, and Infinitive Phrases. For their homework, instead of a worksheet, I want the students to write their own sentences. They are to write 4 sentences for each type of phrase; put the prepositional phrase between parentheses and underline the other sentences.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read "Makes the Whole World Kin" and "A Furnished Room"
-- One worksheet for each story (front and back)
-- 16 sentences (4 for each type of phrase)
Links for this week:
Class Notes
Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Prichard
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