Even though the students enjoyed their break, it always feels good to get back to the routine of school. For our Quick Write this week students chose from the list we developed last semester: 1) What is the best food at the MN State Fair? 2) Hat or no hat? 3) Long pants vs. shorts. As always, many of the students share the ideas that they had written about.
Our Words of the Day were also chosen by the students:
ma non troppo -- Italian, "but not too much" -- this term is often used with musical terms, especially tempo-related ones.
pas -- fr. Italian, "step" -- a step or series of steps used in ballet
toccata -- fr. Italian "touch" -- a musical piece for organ or harpsichord characterized by full chords, rapid runs, and high harmonies
I checked in with the class on the progress of their current writing assignment, which is to write a literary analysis paper on a theme or character from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This, as I've told them, is probably the hardest paper they will write this year. It requires them to have done a careful reading of their book and then to assemble supporting details from the text. We discussed some options for organizing this kind of paper. (See the Rocketbook notes for a diagram that we discussed in class.)
We are now done with the Jekyll/Hyde book, and I divided the class into groups of 4 to answer questions on a final test for the book. As a whole, the class expressed mixed reactions to the book. Some really liked it, and some didn't care for it at all. Some enjoyed the story while others found it too confusing to follow. Our next literature selection is a book of short stories by O. Henry. Some of my all-time favorite stories are in this book, so I'm hoping the students will enjoy them, too. I lieu of questions to answer for the stories, the students elected to have a quiz next week.
We are continuing to work on sentence patterns and structures for the Grammar section of the class. When we last met, we looked at N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj patterns, which we continued to work on this week.
Have a great weekend. The weather should be nice, and spring is just around the corner!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read "The Gift of the Magi" and "After Twenty Years"
-- No worksheet, but be ready for a Quiz on the two stories
-- Themes or Character Rough Draft
-- Subject Complements worksheet (both sides)
Links for this Week
Class Notes
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