Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 5 (February 10)

Greetings!

We had a delightful class today.  Our class time was quite full.

We started with a Quick Write, and these were our prompts:  

• Ask me (Mrs. Prichard) 3 questions, and I will answer at least one of them.
• Tell me something you've not told anyone.
• Write about keeping a secret or planning a surprise.
• Tell about something mysterious that has happened to you
• Whatever . . . 

Our Words of the Day came from Ike, Megan, and Grace.  

kalopsia -- fr. Greek; the state in which everyone and everything seems beautiful

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious -- extraordinarily good

peladophobia -- fear of bald people

We are now in Week 5, so students need to check in on their homework. I give students three weeks to get assigned work in (actually, they have 4 weeks from the assigned date until I will no longer take it.)  After that extended time, assignments will be given zeros.  According to my late homework policy, any assignments due on Week 2 is now overdue.  You will be getting a Grades Report sometime over the weekend.  

Students handed in the final drafts of their Narrative Essays.  I'm really looking forward to reading these because their rough drafts were so good!  As a reminder, they should hand in their rough drafts with my marks/corrections when they hand in the final drafts.  The final drafts should be handed in to the Google Classroom assignment. 

When we finish one paper, we start another.  For the next round of essays,  students can choose to write an Examples Essay or an Analogy Essay.  For both of these types of essays, the students should be thinking explaining one thing with one or more other things.  Students have the next two weeks to do their brainstorming and research.  The pre-writes and rough drafts should be handed in on March 3.

Our discussion about our book, The Thirty-Nine Steps included some creative brainstorming.  Using a game called Storymaster, which had cards with random characters and situations, the students were to create an ending for our spy novel.  I love it when a book elicits creative thinking from readers.  We will finish the book by next week.

At the end of class, I talked through our Grammar worksheet, practicing identifying and classifying prepositional phrases.  Prepositional phrases function either as adjective phrases or adverb phrases, and it can be tricky to tell what kind of phrase it is.

Next week my son Ryan Prichard will be subbing for me.  I will Zoom in for part of the class and he will take charge of the rest.  

Assignments for March 4

-- Examples/Analogy  Pre-Write

-- Examples/Analogy Rough Draft
-- Read Ch. 9 & 10 of The 39 Steps
-- Week 6 – 3 Study Guide Questions 
-- Classifying Prep Phrases

-- Prepositional Phrases -- Adj or Adv

Links for This Week

Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 5 (February 10)

About Examples/Analogy Essays

Have a good weekend!

Blessings,

Mrs. Prichard