Writing 2 Class Notes -- March 13

Greetings!

Happy Pi Day!  Besides eating a nice piece of pie, you could learn a song or rap for the day!

Yesterday was a good day for the class.  For the Quick Write, we expanded a short paragraph by adding adjectives and adverbs.  The end results were somewhat overburdened with wordiness, but it was a good exercise.

We spent time going over the rough drafts of their Evaluation Essays.  As a class, we discussed some of the common problems that came up as I corrected them.  It seems that the same difficulties have come up over the last few papers, so I'm including some links to other web resources that might be helpful:
Parallel constructions:  #1 or #2 or #3
Compound Sentences:  #1 or #2
Agreement of Nouns and Pronouns:  #1 or #2 or #3

After our writing discussion, we looked at the short stories assigned for today:  "The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson; "The Veteran" by Stephen Crane; "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett; and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain.  I had 4 different students lead the discussions.  It was a good opportunity for them to think about forming critical thinking questions for others to answer.


Assignment for Next Week:
-- Read "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin (p. 30); "The White Silence" by Jack London (p. 122); "Germans at Meat" by Katherine Mansfield (p. 130); and "If I Were a Man" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (p. 50).
-- Fill out a Theme/Setting worksheet for one of the stories.
-- Fill out a Short Story worksheet for each of 2 other stories.
-- Finish final copy of Evaluation Essay.

Have a great week!  Enjoy this incredible weather!
Mrs. Prichard