My apologies for the lateness of this e-mail. We had a busy weekend with a conference and out of town guests.
Our Quick Write was an interesting one. I told the students that they could ask me three questions, and I would answer one of them. The questions have been fun to answer: what's my favorite Bible verse? what's my favorite food to cook? where my favorite vacation spot? and finally, who is my favorite student? (I weaseled out of that one!)
Our Words of the Day:
New words:
nutriceutical -- foods used for healing
retail therapy -- shopping for comfort
webliography -- a list of electronic documents
Old words
humble pie -- forced humility; to be forced to apologize
wiseacre -- a person who pretends to be smart but is obnoxious
kickshaw -- a delicacy or trinket
The Rough Drafts of the Problem/Solution or Cause/Effect Essays were handed in this week. These two part essays take a little more time to write, but these students have become strong, thoughtful writers. I look forward to reading through them this week.
We have started into our next book, Great Short Short Stories. The stories for this week were a bit macabre and dark. Unfortunately, not all of our classic literature have pleasant themes. Our stories for next week have some humor and compassion. Instead of discussion questions, students are to fill out short story worksheets; they are really more like charts than worksheets. They will read 4 stories and fill out 3 charts.
We are continuing to work on phrases for the Grammar section of the class. We did a quick review of Prepositional, Participle, Gerund, and Infinitive Phrases. For their homework they are to finish side one of Phrases, Part 2.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read Bret Harte (p. 64), Mark Twain (p. 175), Sarah Orne Jewett (p. 87) and Stephen Crane (p. 34)
-- One worksheet (front and back) for 3 of the four stories
-- Phrases, part 2 (front side only)
Links for this week:
Class Notes
Have a wonderful week!
Mrs. Prichard
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