Greetings!
We had a great class yesterday. I really enjoy that they stay so well-engaged for a 90 minute class.
Our Quick Write for today was created with their help. Using my husband's storytelling abilities as inspiration, I asked them to give me four first names, four animals, and four adjectives. With that information, they wrote stories about a squishy sloth named Bob and a fast platypus named Alex.
Our Vocabulary Activity was a mix of "Scrabble," "Bananagrams," and their literature assignments. We built a Scrabble-like form making words that we could use in a sentence to discuss Gulliver's Travels.
We finished Gulliver's Travels, and I think the students are glad to be done. As I've said before, the beginning of the book was fun and light-hearted, but the last two adventures were more serious. Swift had some serious statements to make against many mindsets and attitudes of the current English culture. In our last discussion, we discussed Gulliver's hypocrisy and the faults of the Houyhnhnms. Next week I'll give a final and we'll play baseball
Since we had discussed at the length the next essay assignment (a Comparison/Contrast paper), we took a short time to review the specifics of this paper.
CHAT doesn't have classes next week due to Thanksgiving. That means only three weeks left in our semester: November 29, December 6 and December 13.
Next Assignments:
-- Prepare for the final and "game"
-- Read the short story "Berties Christmas."
-- Write rough draft of Comparison/Contrast Essay.
Enjoy your family and the Thanksgiving holiday!
Mrs. Prichard
We had a great class yesterday. I really enjoy that they stay so well-engaged for a 90 minute class.
Our Quick Write for today was created with their help. Using my husband's storytelling abilities as inspiration, I asked them to give me four first names, four animals, and four adjectives. With that information, they wrote stories about a squishy sloth named Bob and a fast platypus named Alex.
Our Vocabulary Activity was a mix of "Scrabble," "Bananagrams," and their literature assignments. We built a Scrabble-like form making words that we could use in a sentence to discuss Gulliver's Travels.
We finished Gulliver's Travels, and I think the students are glad to be done. As I've said before, the beginning of the book was fun and light-hearted, but the last two adventures were more serious. Swift had some serious statements to make against many mindsets and attitudes of the current English culture. In our last discussion, we discussed Gulliver's hypocrisy and the faults of the Houyhnhnms. Next week I'll give a final and we'll play baseball
Since we had discussed at the length the next essay assignment (a Comparison/Contrast paper), we took a short time to review the specifics of this paper.
CHAT doesn't have classes next week due to Thanksgiving. That means only three weeks left in our semester: November 29, December 6 and December 13.
Next Assignments:
-- Prepare for the final and "game"
-- Read the short story "Berties Christmas."
-- Write rough draft of Comparison/Contrast Essay.
Enjoy your family and the Thanksgiving holiday!
Mrs. Prichard
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