We covered a lot of material this morning in class. We started with a Quick Write, which was to be a "Literary Love Letter." This is a traditional assignment for the class around Valentine's Day. They could choose a part of speech, some punctuation, an author, or anything else literature of writing related. I like to post these on the blog, so students could let me know if they would like theirs published. (There are links below with "love letters" written in past Writing 1 classes.)
Our Words of the Day included 2 choices from the students and one from me.
hoc monumentum posuit -- Latin,
hoc monumentum posuit, "this monument built/erected" -- The abbreviation H.M.P. is often added at the base of a statue or monument denoting who built it or who commissioned the building.
larmoyant -- French, larmoyant, "tearful" -- tearful, maudlin, sentimental
eponym -- Greek, epi, "called after," nym, "named" -- a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named. Examples: Kleenex, chapstick, sandwich, cardigan.
Students handed in the final drafts of their Narrative Essays. As soon as we finish one Writing assignment, we start the next essay. Their next essay is probably the hardest one of the year. This next assignment is to write a literary analysis essay either about a theme or a character from our book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. We discussed themes and characters in the book and did some brainstorming about possible ways to organize an essay of this type. Students find this essay hard because they don't get to choose the topic and because they might not have enjoyed the book. As students were reading the book they were to be filling in charts for a theme or a character. This in a sense was to be their research for this paper.
Following this discussion/explanation, we did some good Grammar work. We're working on sentence structures, and one difficulty that I feel students have is isolating the subject nouns, predicate nouns, direct objects, and indirect objects; prepositional phrases with their objects often confuse students. With this in mind, we spent last week and this week reading sentences and pulling out the prepositional phrases. After some work on prepositional phrases, we looked at N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj sentences.
Next week we have a break from CHAT classes, so the assignments listed below are for February 27.
Have a great two weeks!
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for February 27
-- Read Chapters 9 & 10 (This finishes the book)
-- 4 Study Guide Questions
-- Pre-Write for Themes or Character essay
-- 2 Sentence Patterns Worksheets (N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj)
Links for This Week
Class Notes
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