Greetings!
We are in Week 14 of our Fall term! Next week will be our last week of classes before Christmas break. The students have worked hard this fall.
Our Quick Write for today was work with cliches. Cliches are just one type of figurative language. Cliches are phrases that don't mean what they literally say. For this exercise, the students had to write something that had at least 3 cliches.
We didn't do any Vocabulary Work today.
Last week the students took a short multiple choice test as a final for the Gulliver's Travels book. I'm not a big fan of multiple choice tests because they test a student's surface knowledge of a topic and not the depth to which they understand the material. However,surface knowledge is a part of knowing a topic.
Today we discussed the rough drafts of the Comparison/Contrast Essays. Even though we had talked at length about possible strategies for organizing this kind of essay, I went over some ideas again. We also discussed pronoun-verb-noun agreement, who/whom and that, and using numbers in an essay.
We're ending the term with 2 Christmas-related short stories. We read "Bertie's Christmas Eve" by Saki (H. H. Munro) and "How Good Gifts were used by Two" by Howard Pyle. The Saki story was almost an anti-Christmas story because the bad guy locks family in the cowshed and has a party with some revelers. The other story is a more typical Christmas story in whichthe rich, selfish man misses out, but the poor generous brother comes out ahead.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Bring a Christmas poem and be ready to recite. It can be one that someone else wrote or that's written by the student
-- Final copy of Comparison/ Contrast Essay
Next week, in addition to reciting poetry, we'll play some word/writing/literature -related games. Students can bring treats if they want.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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