Greetings!
We had a full day in class this week. Breaks are nice, but I like it when we're back together.
For our Quick Write today, the students had options that came from their own suggestions: 1) If you could teach anything, what would you teach and why? 2) What is your favorite Bible verse? Why? 3) Compare a friend or family member with a fictional character. and 4) Discuss the benefits/evils of video games.
Our Words of the Day came from Nina, Halle, and Rachel -- they were fun words today --
bombinate -- fr. Latin, bombitare, to hum -- to hum or buzz like a bee
aubade -- fr. French, auba, "dawn" -- a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning
fideism -- fr. Latin, fide, "faith" -- a doctrine that states that faith rather than reason is the means by which Christian truths are known
Between our beginning of class activities and instruction, we do a quick Homework Check. Along with misc. worksheets and other homework, I handed back the final drafts of their Narrative Essays. They did a wonderful job on this writing assignment. During this time I also reminded them about my homework correcting practices -- I correct homework one day during the week before the next week's class. All work that was handed in on time will get corrected, but if it was turned in late, it might not get corrected until the following week.
The students are on to their next writing assignment, which is either an Examples Essay or an Analogy Essay. (There are some resources listed in the links below.) We talked briefly about this writing assignment. If students are still unclear about what they want to write, they should check the sites below.
For our literature portion of the class, we closed out our reading of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Many people remarked that the ending was a bit unsatisfying. With all of the build up about the race from the bad guys, the ending seemed abrupt. Many students had ideas about what would have made it a better story.
Our next reading selections come from a book of O. Henry Short Stories. O. Henry is one of my favorite writers. He tells a good story and often ends them with unexpected twists. Our first two stories are "Gift of the Magi" and "After Twenty Years." The students just need to read the stories, and we will discuss them next week.
For our Grammar lesson, we looked at two similar sentence structures: N-LV-N and N-LV-Adj sentences. Many times, when students think of verbs, they only think of action words. I have them a handout with a Venn diagram illustrating linking verbs, helping verbs, and state of being (to be) verbs. We worked half way through the worksheets, and they should finish them for next week.
Have a great weekend! The weather looks like it will be marvelous!!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week:
Examples/Analogy Pre-Write and Rough Draft
Short Stories: Read Gift of the Magi & After Twenty Years
Wk6: Sentence Patterns (N-LV-Adj)
Wk6: Sentence Patterns (N-LV-N)
Links for This Week
Class Notes
O. Henry Short Stories (pdfs)
About the Example/Illustration Essay (including example essays from Writer's Resources)
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