What a great, flexible, mostly engaged group of students. I say "mostly" because sometimes it's hard to be sitting in the same room all day, looking at a screen, and keep paying attention. They're doing great!
Our Quick Write prompt inspired by National Laundry Day: a picture of a woman in laundromat dryer. I didn't get to hear much about what the students wrote, but they had a chance to share with one another in a Breakout Room. (By the way, today was National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day, which seems apropos for this quarantine season.)
For most of the semester, we've been doing Words of the Day to explore unusual words and etymologies. Next week we will finish up this part of the class with a rollicking game of "Vocabulary Bingo." To prepare for that, students should review the Words of the Day in order to be familiar with them. (No memorizing definitions is required.)
Following our beginning of class activities, we did a Homework Check. On Wednesday I scanned and emailed homework that included the final drafts of their Jekyll/Hyde papers, various worksheets, and rough drafts of their News Stories. As of late last night, I had the online grade book all updated. Students have been emailing work in since our class time, so it is already not accurate. When students hand in homework, the photos of worksheets and Quick Writes are clear enough for me to read, but not enough to be worth scanning and sending back.
The class has done a good job with the News Story, and they are to do the final drafts for next week. We also talked about bias in journalism. They are to evaluate their own writing for bias. They should write a very short paragraph (3 - 4 sentences) about where there is bias in their news story. At the bottom of the email is a link to free Newspaper templates. If students want to present their news stories in a more creative way, they can feel free to do it. They can also single space their final draft.
For the Poetry section of class, I sent students again to the Breakout Rooms to 1) choose 2 poems to discuss; 2) try to figure out why Mrs Prichard likes the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" and 3) choose a poem to recite as a group. While none of the groups figured out my quirky fascination for this poem, they were thoughtful and had good discussions. Next week I will introduce our Poetry Slam -- a recitation competition.
Finally, for Grammar, I used my Aver document camera to show the Sentence Patterns Practice worksheet. (This lesson was a mix of technology and old school underlining.) We've been reviewing sentence patterns with the Edpuzzle videos. The worksheets I've made can be finished with Word or Google Docs.
Blessings on all of you and your families.
See you next week!
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week
-- Final Draft of the News story
-- Short paragraph about bias in your writing
-- Read the handout with T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Lewis Carroll poems
-- Grammar Worksheets:
-- Sentence Patterns Practice (4 bakers) # 9 - 15
-- Complements Worksheet (both sides)
Links for this Week
Class Notes
Complements Worksheet (you will have to make a copy to complete it online)
Sentence Patterns Practice (you will have to make a copy to complete it online)
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