We had a good class this week. For the Quick Write, the students wrote responses to the following prompt: See how many adverbs you can come up with to modify the verb in the following sentence: 'I _______ wrote my research paper in twenty minutes.' " They came up with quite a variety of words.
Our Latin phrases this week were:
caveat emptor -- Let the buyer beware.
cave canem -- Beware the dog.
cf. or confer -- to compare (often used in scholarly texts)
I handed back the rough drafts of their Evaluation Essay. We spent quite a bit of class time going over common errors found in the papers. As I've said before, one of the best ways to learn grammar is as a student is writing. Otherwise, grammar and mechanics are just theory. For their final drafts, I would like them to write a "reverse outline." This kind of outline is written after the rough draft is written but before the final draft is completed. It's a helpful tool because it gives the writer a sense his organization, especially if there are any flaws.
We talked over some Poetry this week by Anne Bradstreet and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I hadn't mentioned it to them, but April is National Poetry Month; in fact, Thursday, April 18, was "Poem in Your Pocket Day."
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read the following from the poetry book:
Whitman (p. 22 - 26); Dickinson (p. 29 - 32); Wilcox (p. 33); Thayer (p. 34); Dunbar (p. 41 - 43)
No poetry worksheets
-- Final Draft of Evaluation Essay, including
Reverse Outline
Final Copy
Thesis Statement
5 Reasons for Corrections
Citations
-- Review the punctuation handouts; Grammar Quiz/Test next week.
This week's blog:
Class Notes
Grammar Review
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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