In class today, we started, as usual, with a Quick Write. For this week, I pulled the prompts from the National Days Calendar. March 4 was National Grammar Day; March 5 was National Cheese Doodle Day; and March 6 is National Day of Unplugging. Students could write about their love or hate of grammar, about their favorite cheese snacks, or about their use of technology to entertain themselves or waste time.
Our Words of the Day dealt with fears. I've been using a book by Richard Lederer, Crazy English, for some of our words. The Greek root phobia means "fear"
acrophobia -- fr. Greek, akron, tip, heights -- a fear of high places (by the way, the word "acrobat" has the same root, akron)
nyctophobia -- fr. Greek nux, "night" -- a fear of darkness or night
ombrophobia -- fr. Greek ombros, "storm or rain" -- fear of rain or storms (by the way, the word "umbrella" also has the same root.)
phengophobia -- origin unknown -- fear of daylight
basophobia -- fr. Latin bas, base -- a fear of falling; a fear of standing
arachibutyrophobia -- a fear of getting peanut butter stuck on the room of your mouth
And one more
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia -- the fear of long words
After our beginning of class activities and a check in on the homework that was passed back, the class took a quiz on our short stories for this week. As we corrected the quiz in class, we discussed the stories. The quiz was not difficult, but it gave me an opportunity to see if they had read and understood the stories. The Short Stories by O. Henry are quirky and often have unusual endings. They are to read two more for next week. They have a worksheet that asks them to write 3 discussion questions. They should do it on the front side for one story and on the other side (which is blank) for the other story.
Students handed in their rough drafts for the Character/Theme essays. I will go over those this week, but for next week they are to bring 2 paragraphs from their rough drafts. One paragraph should be their introduction and the other can be any other paragraph in the paper. Next week we will divide up into Writing Circles to share the paragraphs with one another.
For our Grammar discussion, we are again working through various sentence structures. Last week we worked on N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj sentences, and this week we looked are working with N-V-N sentences with direct objects. They have two worksheets and should do both fronts and backs.
Have a wonderful weekend. Weather looks great, so enjoy!
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week
-- Read "Makes the Whole World Kin" and "The Furnished Room"
-- Short Stories Worksheet -- 3Q (both sides)
-- Grammar Worksheets: Sentence Patterns, Nouns as Direct Objects, Compound Direct Objects
-- Bring 2 paragraphs, including the introduction paragraph
Links for This Week
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