We had a good class this week. It was "Talk Like a Pirate Day," so our Quick Write was a story about anything pirate related. And our Words of the Day were from a list of pirate terminology:
Ahoy! ("Hello")Avast! ("Check it out.")Aye, Aye! ("Yes, sir!")Beauty (a pretty woman or a boat)Bilge rat (The bilge is the lowest level of the ship loaded with slimy, reeking water -- this would be an insult for a person)Lubber (a land lubber is a "land lover;" someone who would not be comfortable on a boat)Smartly (do something quickly; not a comment on intellectual abilities)
The students handed in their Final Drafts of their Personal Commentary Essays along with their rough drafts and a list of 5 reasons for corrections they made. I'll read them this week and hand them back next week. Our next essay is a Process Essay. (I've attached the hand out that I gave them that describes this assignment.) We spent some time talking about how to write these with thesis statements. We looked at timelines, mindmaps, and flow charts as pre-writing strategies.
We've finished the first part of My Antonia. The novel is divided into "Books" and sections within the books. The portion we just finished was titled "The Shimerdas" and told about Jim's and Antonia's childhood days. In class we discussed the suicide death of Mr. Shimerda and the challenges of immigrants.
For our Grammar discussion, we reviewed Simple Sentences and Compound Sentences before I gave them a handout on Complex Sentences.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Write the rough draft of the Process Essay
-- Read pages 70 - 94 in My Antonia.
-- Complete the worksheets for Complex Sentences
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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