Greetings!
We had a good class this week and covered a lot of information.
Quick Write
For our Quick Write, students had 2 options: 1) For what are you willing to pay "top dollar," and for what items would you be willing to go the cheap route? and 2) Do you or someone you know have a notable collection. As always, they could always take the "Whatever" option.
Words of the Day
This week our words were "cheap" and "extravagant." Rather than discuss their etymologies, we explored 2 online resources: Visual Thesaurus and Thesaurus.com. Both of these sites are great tools for writing.
Writing Discussion
Students handed in their final drafts of their Descriptive Essays; I always want them to hand in the rough drafts so that I can compare them to see what revisions have been made. As soon as we're done with one paper, we move right along to the next one. Their next essay is a Personal Essay. For this essay they should choose a personal experience or a topic that is of strong personal interest to them. As a part of the discussion, we went over introductions, thesis statements, and essay structure. The rough draft is due next week.
Literature Discussion
We did not take time to talk/discuss our book Animal Farm because I wanted to give students more time to work together on their parts of speech presentations. We'll spend more time with the book next week.
Grammar
This week students spent about 30 minutes in their Parts of Speech groups planning what they will do for their chosen parts of speech. I roamed through the room and heard good comments, and I also shared some ideas of activities other students have done. In the list of links below are 3 samples of videos that students have done to explain their parts of speech. I'm looking forward to our first presentation, which is the Interjections group, next week.
A Quick Comment about Homework & Scores
As I mentioned in the email before sending out the Grade Reports, if a student wants to know if he/she is missing work, then Google Classroom is the place to look. If a student wants to know scores and percentages, then the weekly email is what you should look at.
Assignments for Next Week
(No Writing Circles Preparation mentioned on the Checklist.)
Read Ch. 7 & 8 of Animal Farm
Interjections group preparation
All other groups, keep preparing
Links & Resources for this Week
Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 5 (September 23)
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