Writing 1A Class Notes -- Week 13 (Nov. 21)

Greetings!

We started the class with a Quick Write using the student ideas for the prompts:  Today we wrote on about 1) favorite movies and 2) getting gifts vs. giving gifts.  As always, students did some good thinking and writing.  The students had great ideas, and we now have a list of over 200 ideas to choose from.

Our Words of the Day:

tarradiddle -- a fib, petty lie, or pretentious nonsense, 

widdershins -- counter clockwise, contrary to customary direction, left-handed

The students are really creative about coming up with possible definitions for these unusual words.

Students handed in their Rough Drafts of their History Essays along with their Pre-Writes and a self-evaluation Rough Draft Rubric.  (Note:  If students did not hand their essays in class, they can email them as Word Documents or share them as Google docs.  I can not open documents from Apple/Mac Pages.)

We're near the end of A Christmas Carol, so I thought it was time for a short quiz.  I grouped the students to first answer questions from Staves One and Two.  Then they finished a Vocabulary Quiz in groups; they worked really well in their small groups. In our next class period we will finish up this short Dickens classic.

We've finished the Parts of Speech presentations, so we did a little reviewing of the 8 parts of speech (interjections, verbs, adjectives, nouns, conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions, and pronouns)  Students were given a rubric to evaluate themselves, their group work, and their presentations.  The last step for this unit is a final test that they are to do at home. These tests need a parent's signature to verify that it was done without any materials to help.

A note about the Parts of Speech Post Test -- The second page directs students to find nouns, verbs, etc. in two sentences.  The numbers in parentheses are not accurate.  Please disregard them.

Assignments for Next Week

-- Read Stave Five

-- No Study Guide Questions & No Vocabulary Words

-- Parts of Speech Post-Test

Links for This Week

Class Notes

11-21 Student Notes

11-21 Whiteboard Notes

Have a blessed Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Prichard