Greetings!
Our last day of the semester! We’ve done some great reading and writing as a class these past 15 weeks.
Our Quick Write, meant as a reflection on our work, answered two questions: 1) What did you learn this semester? and 2) What would you like/need to learn? We had a great discussion as I heard answers from the students. With this great group of students, I’m looking forward to working with them next semester as they learn more about writing style, grammar, and literature.
I had two “reader’s theater” opportunities for the class. One was a Book-A-Minute version of AChristmas Carol, and the other was The Twelve Days of Christmas Vacation.
Our final activity for the day was a Progressive Story exercise. Below are instruction used for this game/writing activity:
Pass around stories. Write three lines of notebook paper's worth of a story. Fold back the top two lines and pass to the right. (The next person can only see the last line). The next person continues the story with three additional lines and folds back the paper to leave the bottom line only. Each student begins a story so everyone is writing the whole time. When the student's story returns to themselves, they write a closing line (looking only at the last line written.). Then read the stories aloud. Most are quite funny.
Finally, the students handed in their Final Drafts of their Comparison/Contrast Essays along with any remaining homework. I will go through the Final Drafts and hand everything back when we meet again in January. Once I’ve graded the essays, I will send out grades to students and parents. You’ll hear more from me and what I think of grades.
This week's blog
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
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