Greetings!
We started today with a Quick Write using prompt options that they had written:
- What are some of your pet peeves?
- What do you do that annoys others, either accidentally or intentionally?
- What is the grossest thing you've ever eaten?
- What is the best/worst part of your hous?
- Whatever????
Our Words of the Day were brought to use by Liam and Grace:
bork: obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them. (taken from the nomination experience of Robert Bork)
sesquipedalian: fr. Latin sesquipedalis, a foot and a half -- characterized by long words or long-windedness
The usual Agenda for the class time is to do these beginning of class activities and then most of the time we cover these topics in this order: Writing assignments/instruction, Literature discussion, and Grammar instruction/work.
For our Writing discussion, I checked in with them about the progress of their Narrative Essays. The Pre-Writes and Rough Drafts are due next week. Students were reminded that a Narrative Essay is kind of like a "story with a purpose."
The class has read the first 2 chapters of our book, The Thirty-Nine Steps. We talked about some points in chapters 1 and 2. Then I divided the class into 4 groups, and they played the game "Enter the Mystery Mansion." Students were given cards with pictures, and as a group, they were to compose a mystery and/or spy story. When they were done, they retold their stories for the Zoom portion of the class. They were quite creative!
The last part of class was for Grammar instruction. Today, I did a short lesson on simple and compound subjects and predicates. Students got their worksheets at the end of class. Remember, they should be corrected before they are turned in!
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Homework for Next Week:
Read Ch. 3 & 4 of The 39 Steps
Links for this Week
Class Notes
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