Greetings!
Today was a good day in class. Since it is 9/11, I had the students write a short
Quick Write titled
"Patriot Day." In 2009, September 11 was named Patriot Day as a means
of memorial and as an encouragement to Americans to offer volunteer
service to others. I asked the students to write about some way they
give service or would like to give service to others. I appreciated the
comments that they shared.
Our
Words of the Day were volunteered up by students from their vocabulary lists from our book,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The words today were:
-- Blatherskite-- (fr. a 1650 Scottish song) a person given talking too much nonsense and empty talk
-- Objurgate -- (fr. L,
objugare, to reproach) to denounce or scold harshly
-- Swag -- (fr.
Norwegian , svagga to sway, rock) a large number, amount, or variety
-- Anecdote -- (fr. Greek, anekdota, to give out, publish) a short story or account of an event
Remember: These words from the novel will be part of an end of the semester test.
We
took most of the class to discuss their rough drafts. One of my
strategies is to go over these and to discuss the most common errors. I
feel that students can learn more about grammar and writing as they
write and make mistakes than they can from worksheets. We talked about
commas, compound sentences, pronoun/noun agreement, formatting, "There
is/are" sentence structures, and avoiding the word "things." For next
week, they are to revise/edit/correct their rough drafts and make them
final drafts. I gave them a half-sheet on which they are to list their
first 5 errors and then the area that they would like to work on for
their next paper.
Although we spent most of the time talking about the rough drafts, we were able to take the last few minutes to talk about
A Connecticut Yankee.
The hero, Hank, is on a quest with the most talkative female on the
face of the earth. He scares other knights with pipe smoke coming out
his his armor helmet.
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