Greetings!
We are definitely heading into spring. I saw some students in shorts and lighter-weight jackets as opposed to the heavier winter apparel.
Here were the prompts for today’s Quick Write:
How do you define success? What would success look like to you in your future?
What qualities do you see in yourself that you also see in other family members? How are you alike or not like someone you’re related to?
Who is someone you admire? Why do you admire this person? What qualities does this person have that you would like to have?
What fictional character would you like to meet? Why? What would you do or talk about?
For our Words of the Day came from our students:
salubrious -- fr. Latin salubris, "promoting health; healthful" -- favorable to health & well-being
androphobia -- fr. Greek andros, "man/men" and phobia "fear" -- a morbid fear of men
snollygoster -- origin attributed to H.W.J. Ham, a member of the 1893 Georgia Legislature -- a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician
Students have handed in the Final Drafts of their Examples/Analogy Essays. We're now ready to start our final "from scratch" essay. (Following this essay, students will complete a re-write of an earlier written essay and a short reflection paper.) This next writing assignment is a News Story. We talked about the differences between an essay and a news story. For a news story, writers give out the broad, general information and progress to more details. Journalists are aware that readers could stop reading at any point (or not be interested enough to turn the page and finish the story.) Students can write a factual news story, a news story about some historical event, a fictional news story, a movie/theater review, or a review of something else that would be news-worthy. The rough draft and pre-write are due in 2 weeks on March 31.
After I introduced the next writing assignment, we took some time for a "Jigsaw" activity. In this type of small group work, students are grouped and each group has it's own discussion topic. After they've fully discussed that topic, they are regrouped so that the new groups have someone from each of the specific topics. The overall focus of these small groups was to come up with ideas for overcoming obstacles when writing.
We did not take time to discuss O. Henry's stories, "Retrieved Reformation" and "The Pimienta Pancake." Next week we will read "The Ransom of Red Chief" and discuss all three stories. Instead of a short story worksheet, I've assigned a quiz. I had planned to do this in class, but have posted it in Google Classroom as a form. (Note: this is a closed book quiz.) In the links section below are some videos and an audio version of the story.
We continue to work on sentence patterns and sentence elements for our Grammar instruction. Last week and this week we practiced identifying direct objects and indirect objects. Their worksheets for this week are again on direct and indirect objects.
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week
Links for This Week
Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 9 (March 17)
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