Writing 2 Class Notes -- March 20 (Week 9)

Greetings!

We had a good week of classes this week.  We started the class with a more active Quick Write.  Using the adjective cards from my game, Funglish, the students were assigned to write sentences using the adjectives.  When the first round of sentences were written, we passed our cards down the table and wrote new sentences using the new set of adjectives.    Some students wrote sentences that told stories (albeit very unusual) and some wrote individual sentences for each adjective.

The students handed in their final drafts of their Cause/ Effect Essays.  These essays have been very thoughtful and I look forward to reading over them during the Spring Break. 

Our next essay will be an Evaluation Essay.  For this essay, they are to explore the significance of a topic while writing about its overall quality of a particular product, business, place, service, or program.  To develop an essay is this type, think in terms of a topics value, impact, and significance, its strengths and weaknesses, and its place in the scheme of things.

They have been given a worksheet that is a review of commas.  The rules and guidelines about commas are beginning to stick.  We will go over some more punctuation and end the semester with an exam.

We had a lively discussion of our short stories.  One that I've had some particular interest in, Kate Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings," has always  intrigued me because people have had such varied readings of the story.  The students seem to have one way of looking at Mrs. Sommers's actions, and I read it differently.  If you're interested, read it for yourself and tell me what you think.

I'm sure I don't need to remind you, but we don't have classes next week.

Assignments for April 3 (Week 10)
-- Read Pirandello's "With Other Eyes" (p. 149) and de Maupassant's "A Piece of String" (p. 134)
-- Fill out both sides of the 2 worksheets that were handed out.
-- Evaluation Essay Pre-writing.  This will include some research along with an outline or mind-map.

This week's blog
Class Notes
Evaluation Essay
Master the Comma Review
Characters:  The Actors in a Story
The Short Story
Analyzing the Theme in a Story
Analyzing the Setting in a Story


Have a great Spring Break!!
Mrs. Prichard