Greetings!
We are officially over half way through the Spring semester. I don't know about you, but once we hit daylight savings time and the days get longer, the days also seem to fly by more quickly!
For the Quick Write this week students had 3 options:
- March 10 is National Pack a lunch Day. Write about your favorite lunches.
- Where is the one place you never want to go to again?
- List 20 of your favorite foods
- And, as always, the "Whatever" option
We had two Words of the Day
apathetic-- fr. Greek, a, "without" and pathos, emotion, feeling -- strabizo, "to squint" -- lack of interest, enthusiasm, concern
floccinaucinihilipilification -- the action or habit of estimating something as worthless (the link for this 29 letter word is for the pronunciation)
I handed back the rough drafts of the Examples or Analogy Essays that the students had written. As part of our writing/grammar instruction, I covered common errors in the papers. For this round of essays, these were the topics: the word "things," comma placement, comma splice sentences, and page format. The final drafts are due next week. In addition to the final draft, students are to fill out a form for their first 5 and last 5 mistakes on their rough drafts.
We have read two more Short Stories: "Makes the Whole World Kin" and "The Furnished Room." The first story is about a burglar who makes an uncommon connection with the man he's robbing, and that is the one that we talked about. O. Henry's stories are full of unexpected twists and endings. We had an in-class quiz about the first story.
For the Grammar portion of our class, we are continuing to review sentence patterns. This week, we are "building" sentences that follow the N-V-N (S-V-DO) and N-V-N-N (S-V-IO-DO) patterns, so we discussed transitive verbs, direct objects, and indirect objects. We had time in class to work on our worksheets.
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
Assignments for Next Week:
Links for This Week
Writing 1 Class Notes -- Week 8 (March 10)
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