We had a good day in class and covered a lot of ground.
Quick Write
For today's Quick Writes, we had the following prompts:
1 -- Contribute to the list of Quick Write ideas to be used for my classes for the rest of the year.
2 -- Write about a sports mis-hap that happened to you or that you know about.
3 -- November 18 is National Princess Day and November 16, 1553, was the day that Queen Elizabeth I became the queen of England following the death of her sister, Mary. Write about any royalty that you are especially interested in.
Homework Check
A reminder to students: make sure you correct your grammar worksheets and show on the worksheet or the Google Classroom assignment that you're corrected it. Also, make sure you turn in assignments that you've done on Google Classroom. A number of assignments have been finished, but students have forgotten to turn the work in .
Writing Discussion
Students have been assigned another essay -- a History Essay. The Pre-Write and Rough Draft are due the week after Thanksgiving break. We did some brainstorming about topics and then some more for possible thesis statements. Coming up with thesis statements is one of the hard parts of writing a paper. The thesis statement is more than a topic sentence; it is a sentence that tells the reader what the topic is and what the writer's stand or opinion is. When students are thinking about their topics, they should also be thinking about that topic's importance or significance. I often call this the "Why should I care?" element.
Literature Discussion
We are three chapters (Staves) into A Christmas Carol. We've read about Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, and the Ghost of Christmas Present. Most of my questions concerned details about the story and not as many analysis questions. A number of students didn't bring their books to class. Remember to bring them next week.
Grammar
We had our last presentation for our parts of speech unit. Today we heard from the Prepositions trio. They had a slide presentation, a video, and a game. Students have Prepositions worksheets and evaluation to do for homework. They also have a review of the last 4 parts of speech before the final test. (CAPP Review)
Assignments for December 2
Prepositions Evaluation (Google Classroom)
CAPP Review -- Conjunctions (Google Classroom)
CAPP Review -- Adverbs (Google Classroom)
CAPP Review -- Pronouns (Google Classroom)
CAPP Review -- Prepositions (Google Classroom)
Read Stave 4 of A Christmas Carol
Links for This Week
Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 12 (November 18)
Have a great Thanksgiving weekend!
Blessings!
Mrs. Prichard
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