We had a good, productive day in class today. I gave the students two options for the Quick Write. Firstly, this day in 1841 marks the day that the first detective short story was printed. This story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allen Poe introduces Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders in Paris. The second option was to respond to the fact that today is National High Five Day. We had a couple options for additional ways to great or congratulate someone.
Our Words (Latin roots) of the Day:
omni -- Latin, all -- omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnivore, Omni Theater
pac -- Latin, peace -- pacify, pacifist, pacifier, Pacific, pact, impact
pater -- Latin, father -- paternal, paternal, Padre, compadre, patriotic, patriot, patron, patronize, patronage
ped -- Latin, foot -- pedometer, centipede, pedestrian, pedal, expedient, pedicure, podiatrist
pedo -- Greek, child -- pediatric, pediatrician, pedagogy
I handed back homework, and we took some time to talk about the Rough Drafts of the News Stories. Usually when I hand back rough drafts I have a list of common corrections that we go through. For this set of essays, I asked students to look through their own papers and offer up areas for corrections. This was helpful in that we could discuss issues specific to their papers. I also encouraged them to pay close attention to their corrections because this is one way that they can take charge of their own growth as writers. When they do their Final Drafts, they have a half sheet to fill out for documenting the first five corrections on their papers. They also have the rubric to do a self-evaluation on their papers.
Continuing with our focus on Punctuation, students were given a worksheet dealing with parentheses and dashes, and we worked through a number of sentences together.
Finally, we turned to our Poetry books. April is National Poetry Month, and I talked about the poetry presentations that we will be doing at the end of the semester. For the final two weeks, the students are divided into teams and "compete" by reciting poems from their books or originals. I have some poetry-related blog posts listed below. We read one of my favorites, William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheel Barrow."
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read Wordsworth (p. 12); Browning (p. 19); Bronte (p. 24); Hopkins (p. 31)
-- Read all of the poems by the authors listed.
-- No poetry worksheets
-- Final Draft of News Story
-- 5 First Errors worksheet
-- Self-Evaluation Rubric
-- Worksheet 15-4
Links for this Week
Class Notes
Have a beautiful weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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