I don't know if you are like me, but this time of year, when it seems that Spring might really be here and that we are done for good with winter for a while, I get a little cynical. Sure, on this beautiful Saturday afternoon it's almost 80, but I'm not putting away the hats and mittens quite yet. That being said, I'm soaking up as much sun and fresh air as I can. Hope you are also having a great weekend!
This week, the Quick Write was a collaborative effort between my CHAT Writing 1 Class and my Basic Composition class that I teach at Arcadia Charter School in Northfield. The students in that class were assigned to come up with interesting Quick Write ideas; as a result, I now have a fresh list of 95 ideas. I asked students to give choose 3 numbers between 1 and 95, and those were our writing prompts this week:
14. What are the first and last books you have read?
21. What is your least favorite subject?
91. If you could teach anything, what would it be and why?
Our Words of the Day were war-related words:
spoliation -- the act of plundering/spoiling
polemology -- the study of conflict and war
casus belli -- the origin (cause) of war
pyrrhic victory -- a victory achieved at a very great cost
Students handed in their Rough Drafts of their Evaluation Essay. This is their final Rough Draft of the year. Their next essay will be a re-write of a previous essay.
This was almost our final week for Short Stories. We started to discuss one of the stories, but not all of the students had read it. We WILL discuss "Sanctuary" by Nella Larsen next week. We are also switching from Short Stories to Poetry. Students were given their next book: 101 Great American Poems.
During our Grammar portion of the class, we reviewed sentence elements. Working with sentences from a worksheet projected on the white board, we marked complete and simple sentences along with complete and simple predicates. Taking apart sentences and understanding their parts can be confusing.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read the following poems by the following poets:
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (p. 21 - 22)
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 4 - 5)
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (p. 6 - 10)
-- Walt Whitman (p. 22 - 26)
-- Emily Dickinson (p. 29 - 32)
-- Exercise #1, #2, and #3 from the Worksheet
Links for This Week:
Class Notes
Have a great week!
Mrs. Prichard
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