We had a good class this Thursday. It was good to be back after our break. It's good to have a break from some classes so that we can return to our CHAT classes refreshed and ready to work hard for the next few weeks.
Our Quick Write this week was in recognition of World Health Day on April 7. I asked the students to write about a healthy life; it could be either serious or ironic. One student suggested a Buddy the Elf diet consisting of maple syrup, chocolate syrup, and Pop Tarts.
Our Latin Roots of the Day were:
laborare -- Latin, to work -- English derivatives: labor, laborious, collaborate, elaborate, laboratory
lingua -- Latin. tongue, language -- English derivatives: linguist, linguistic, language, linguine (from L. tongue)
luc -- Latin (genitive) light, bright -- English derivatives: lucid, elucidate, translucence, Lucifer
lumen -- Latin, light -- English derivatives: illuminate, luminary, Illuminati, bioluminescence
lux -- Latin (nominative) a light -- English derivatives: luxurious, luxury
I usually take time while students are doing their Quick Writes to hand back their homework. After discussing the Quick Writes, we discussed the assignments. Some students had some old, missing assignments which they handed in. They also handed in their rough drafts of their News Stories. I look forward to reading them this weekend.
We read our final stories from our Short Stories book. We took time in class to discuss Nella Larsen's "Sanctuary" and Sherwod Anderson's "The Egg," In the Larsen story, we discussed race and prejudice and forgiveness. The Anderson story dealt with themes of family, personal history, and chickens.
We are now heading into our Poetry unit. Students were given their poetry books before break and a poetry worksheet for this week's poems.
We've also made a transition in our grammar. Having finished with some commas work, we're focusing on other bits of punctuation. The worksheets from last week dealt with quotation marks and italics. This week we went over dashes, parentheses, and hyphens. They were given a worksheet and a handout discussing specific hyphen use.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read the poems by the following poets:
Bradstreet (p. 1); Wheately (p. 1); Emerson (p. 4, 5); Longfellow (p. 6 - 10); Whitman (p. 22 - 26); Dickinson (p. 29 - 32)
-- For 2 of the poems, fill out 2 poetry worksheets
-- No essay homework, unless you have not finished the Evaluation Essay rough draft.
This week's links:
Class Notes
Have a beautiful weekend!
Maybe, just maybe it won't snow!
(I posted on the blog a picture of the flash snowstorm that happened Friday morning in Northfield.)
Mrs. Prichard
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