Greetings!
We started our class thinking about "Gratitude." I shared with the class that research shows that people who develop intentional habits of expressing gratitude have stronger cognitive functioning, better immune systems, and a greater degree of happiness. For our Quick Write prompts today, students could choose from these options:
- What is a simple pleasure that you are grateful for?
- What is something that you are looking forward to?
- Who is someone who could really use a "thank you note?"
The students had some great comments, and we decided that next week we would write some real thank you notes. I will bring envelopes and stamps and the students are to bring addresses. (What a great group this is!!)
Our Words of the Day came from Nina and Kaylynn:
oikofugic -- fr. Greek oiko, "house" and Latin fugere, "to flee" -- a desire to wander or run away from home.
lachrymose -- fr. Latin lachrymosis, "tear" -- suggest of or tending to cause tears; mournful
mammonism -- fr. Latin mamonao, "wealth" -- the greedy pursuit of riches.
For class this week, we had extras on Zoom due to the bad roads. Unfortunately, the internet kicked me off, and I couldn't get Zoom up and running again. I'm afraid those students attending on Zoom missed that last 1/3 of the class.
Students have handed in the Pre-Writes and Rough Drafts of their Narrative Essays. Most of them enjoyed writing these because they could write about personal experiences. I look forward to reading them.
We are 4 chapters into our book, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and most of the students are enjoying the story line. Some aspects are unfamiliar because it was written for another time and place. I reminded the students to look up unfamiliar words. We also read some of the landscape descriptions. Even though these aren't the most important aspects of the story, they geography and Richard Hannay's response to the weather, plants, etc. have a subtle effect on the mood of the story.
For the Grammar portion of class, we worked again on simple and compound sentences. We took time to do a few of the sentences on each worksheet.
Assignments for Next Week:
Read Ch. 5 & 6 of The 39 Steps
Week 4 – 3 Study Guide Questions
Grammar – Subject/Verb Agreement
Grammar – Simple Sentences (Compound Subject & Predicate)
Grammar – Simple Sentences Review
Links for This Week
Class Notes
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