I don't know if you are like me, but this time of year, when it seems that Spring might really be here and that we are done for good with winter for a while, I get a little cynical. Sure, on this beautiful Saturday afternoon it's almost 80, but I'm not putting away the hats and mittens quite yet. That being said, I'm soaking up as much sun and fresh air as I can. Hope you are also having a great weekend!
This week, the Quick Write was a collaborative effort between my CHAT Writing 1 Class and my Basic Composition class that I teach at Arcadia Charter School in Northfield. The students in that class were assigned to come up with interesting Quick Write ideas; as a result, I now have a fresh list of 95 ideas. I asked students to give choose 3 numbers between 1 and 95, and those were our writing prompts this week:
2. What is your favorite color?
11. What do you want to be when you grow up?
91. Describe somewhere you have never been.
Our Words of the Day were war-related words:
spoliation -- the act of plundering/spoiling
polemology -- the study of conflict and war
casus belli -- the origin (cause) of war
pyrrhic victory -- a victory achieved at a very great cost
Students handed in their Rough Drafts of their News Stories. This is their final Rough Draft of the year. Their next essay will be a re-write of a previous essay.
We've switched from Short Stories to Poetry. We read aloud and discussed "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes and William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow." I then divided the class into 3 groups to discuss one of the assigned poems by Robert Frost. All of these are considered classics in American literature. Many of you might be familiar with "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" or "The Road Not Taken."
During our Grammar portion of the class, we reviewed sentence elements. Working with sentences from a worksheet projected on the white board, we marked complete and simple sentences along with complete and simple predicates.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read the following poems by the following poets:
-- William Wordsworth (p. 12 - 13)
-- Robert Browning (p. 23)
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (p. 19)
-- Emily Bronte (p. 24)
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins (p. 31)
Links for This Week:
Class Notes
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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