Monday, March 20, 2017

Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 8 (March 16)

Greetings!

Just a quick note this week.

Students could choose one of three options for the Quick Write:  1)  March 17 is St. Patrick Day, and students could write about their family heritage; 2)  March 15 was the Ides of March, and students could write about appropriate ways to oppose the government; 3) students could write about their favorite breakfasts.

Words of the Day:
ign -- Latin, "fire/burn" -- ignite, ignition, igneous
inter -- Latin, "between/among" -- interact, interject, interjection, intercool, intermediary, intercollegiate, intermission, intersection
ject/jug -- Latin, "cast/throw" -- interject, interjection, deject, subject, reject, object, project, projectile, trajectory, eject, 
junct -- Latin, "join/unite" -- junction, conjunction, adjunct, join, injunction, subjunctive

Rough Draft discussion:
Students did a great job with these essays.  I know that they were hard to write.  We went over some common mistakes that I encountered while going over the rough drafts.

Short Story discussion:
I divided the class into small groups to discuss the two assigned short stories.  As I listened, they had some good insights.  As we read the O. Henry stories, I want students to pay special attention to how  he describes, with few brush strokes, his characters.  We also talked about the quirkiness/oddness in the plots, which is a characteristic that I love about O. Henry's stories.

Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read 'Makes the Whole World Kin," and "The Furnished Room"
-- Fill out two short story worksheets
-- Final Drafts of Jekyll/Hyde essays

Links for this week
Class Notes

Have a good week!
Mrs. Prichard

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