Greetings!
A quick recap of this week's class:
Our Quick Write required them to write about Thanksgiving from the perspective of an inanimate object. We had a story about a shredded napkin and a turkey gone to heaven.
Our Vocabulary Building exercises included some rhyming practice. Sometimes at our dinner table, family members start a string of rhyming sentences. (Think of the giant in Princess Bride.) The students did well; they might have done better if we were sitting around a table full of food!
Rough drafts of the Comparison/Contrast Essays were handed in this week. Their writing improves with each assignment, and I look forward to reading them this week. The final copies of these papers are due the last week of class.
We finished Gulliver's Travels with two tests this week. I gave them a short, multiple choice test and we played "Baseball." In order to "get on base," the students had to answer questions about the book that their classmates wrote. Some of the questions were very easy ("singles") and some were almost impossible ("triples/home runs"). The students not only test how much they know, but they have to interact more with the book as they look for questions. They did a great job.
Next Week Assignments:
-- Read the 2 short stories: "Bertie's Christmas" and "How Good Gifts were Used by Two." (Both stores are on Dropbox and on the blog.)
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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