We worked this week and covered a lot of material in class. As always, we started our day with a Quick Write. Yesterday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day (here is the official website and here is a Wikipedia article and here are the Muppets!)
Most of the students were unaware of this notable event. As an
alternative, they could write about super heroes.
We also listened to Amy Walker's Tour of American Accents, and I challenged the students to try to write something as if it were some other accent.
I look forward to
reading their responses.
In connection with the returned homework, we discussed their Final Drafts of their Descriptive Essays.
As I grade the final drafts, I use a rubric for a more holistic look at
their work. (The rubric is attached and is on this blog post.) For
the first essay, I'm a pretty easy grader. As we progress through the
year, we will use these rubrics to set writing goals and students will
use them to evaluate their own writing. For example, in the Focus
category, students will be thinking about whether their thesis
statements are compelling and thought-provoking or simply a statement
that combines the topic and opinion.
This week's Grammar topic of the Parts of Speech, Interjections, was brought to us by Aliena. We watched a Schoolhouse Rock video, Interjections,
and had a short teaching. Then Alieana had a number of in-class
activities for us to practice using interjections. She did a great job,
and I look
forward to next week's presentation on Verbs by Phillip. (The
Adjectives presenter, Maggie, should be
preparing for her presentation on 10/3.)
Rather than complete Reader Responses for our discussion of Animal Farm, the students chose to do another Literature Circle. Therefore, as the students are reading through Chapters 7 & 8, they should be preparing for their assigned roles:
Discussion Director -- Maggie
Illustrator -- Phillip
Luminary -- Stephan
Word Nerd -- Alieana
Connector -- Brooke M. and Brad
Summarizer -- Brooke S.
Assignments for Next Week
-- Read Animal Farm Chapters 7 & 8
-- No Reader Responses
-- 3 Vocabulary
-- Prepare for your role in the Literature Circles
-- Interjections Homework
-- No writing homework
Links for This Week
Parts of Speech Presentation Dates
Interjections -- Aliena (9/19)
Verbs -- Phillip (9/26)
Adjectives -- Maggie (10/3)
Nouns -- Stephan (10/10)
Conjunctions -- Brooke S. (10/24)
Adverbs -- Brad (10/31)
Pronouns -- Raya (11/7)
Prepositions -- Brooke M. (11/14)
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
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