Greetings!
We had another full class time this week. When I first started teaching at CHAT, I didn't know how I would fill a 90 minute class. Now I wish I could have the students for even more time because there's always more to cover.
Quick Write
Our prompts for today:
Nov. 10 was the birthday of the US Marine CorpsNov. 11 was Veterans/Armistice DayNov. 12 was National Chicken Soup for your Soul
Students could write something about the military or about something that has to do with social/mental/emotional self-care.
Words of the Day
Today's words were war-related:
military -- fr. Latin militis, "soldier" -- of or relating to war, soldiers, armyveteran -- fr. Latin, veteranus, "old, aged, experienced" -- someone who has served in the military; someone who has had long experience in an occupation/skillarmistice -- fr. Latin, arma, "weapons" and stitium, "to stand, be firm" -- a temporary halt in battleswar -- fr. PIE (Proto-Indo-European) wers, "to confuse, mix up" -- a fight carried on in battle using arms
The final drafts of the Biography Essay were due this week, and we're on to the next essay -- a History Essay. For the Biography Essay, students were to write about the significance of a person, and for the History essay, students should discuss the significance in history and culture of an event, item, or period. For the rest of the essays that they will write for Writing 1, students will write a Pre-Write, Rough Draft, and Final Draft. I have the Pre-Write "due" next week because I want students to take the week to plan and research for their essays. However, they don't have to hand in the pre-writes until they hand in the rough drafts, which will be on December 2 (3 weeks from this week.)
Literature
We didn't talk about Stave Two of A Christmas Carol today. Next week we'll cover Staves Two and Three.
Grammar
We had a good presentation about Pronouns that also included a little "story time." Students have pronouns homework and a pronouns evaluation to do for their Grammar homework. Next week, our final presenation: Prepositions.
Assignments for Next Week
Biography Essay Rough Draft (if not done)
Biography Essay Final Draft (if not done)
First 5 Corrections (if not done)
History Essay Pre-Write (work on for 11/19 and due 12/2)
Read Stave Three of A Christmas Carol
Links for This Week
Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 11 (November 11)
Enjoy the changing of the seasons!!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
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