Greetings!
Another great day in class!
In recognition that Thursday is the autumnal equinox (the first day of fall when we have as many hours of daylight as we do night), I asked student to write in their Quick Writes about what they like about fall. In addition to the changing leaves and "sweater weather," yummy foods like pumpkin and apple cider were mentioned. Of course, some weren't so happy about the coming cold winter season.
Our Words of the Day were compound nouns that students had to figure out. Maybe you can figure out what word you would put on the line that make three compound nouns with the other halves of the words:
__________ hunter, line, quarters (ans. head)
__________ board, note, ring (ans. key)
__________ line, pass, product (ans. by)
bank, cook, text __________ (ans. book)
bull's, evil, private __________ (ans. eye)
curtain, lightning, ram __________ (ans. rod)
I handed back the graded Final Drafts of the Descriptive Essays along with quizzes and other homework. I enjoyed this set of essays and look forward to a full year of work from them. They handed in the rough drafts of their Personal Essays, which I will hand back next week.
We took more time with our literature selection. Dividing the class into small groups, I asked them to discuss one of the study questions for Animal Farm from this week's list. Following their small group discussions, each group shared with the class the key points for their questions.
Today began the Parts of Speech presentations. I was first on the list for a presentation on Conjunctions, but we had two hiccups. First, we had to be sensitive noise-wise to the group on the other side of our movable wall. Secondly, we took a lot of time with our small group discussions. I briefly covered Coordinating, Subordinating and Correlating Conjunctions. Below are some links for videos that have good explanations.
Our schedule for the upcoming Parts of Speech Presentations:
9/29 -- Nouns: Bryce, Corrine, Emily , Isabella
10/6 -- Pronouns: Linnea, Jade, Christanna
10/13 -- Adjectives: Dillon, David, Sofia, Zoev
10/27 -- Adverbs: Timothy, Daniel, Kevin
11/3 -- Verbs: Kayla, Audrey, Caitlyn, Macy
11/0 -- Prepositions: Cally, Hayley, Julia
11/17 -- Interjections: Gabriel, Benjamin, Yoshi, Sam
(Note: I think a couple of students may have changed groups.)
Finally, a couple students mentioned that they had not been able to log on to My GradeBook, so here are the code and instructions:
Go to My GradeBook
Initial log in: Classword: N9Z92312J
Initial password: student's first name and last initial
After you have logged in the first time, you can change the log in information.
Assignments for This Week:
-- Read Animal Farm: Chapters 7 - 8
-- Answer 3 Study Guide questions
-- Fill in 3 Vocabulary words
-- Finish the Conjunctions Worksheet
-- Work on Presentations
-- PARTS OF SPEECH PRE-TEST
Links for This week:
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
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