Can you believe that we're halfway through the fall semester? Where does the time go? So far, I feel that we've had a productive class, and I'm enjoying this group of students.
I had overheard students talking about having lots of homework and looking forward to the fall break. So, for the Quick Write, I asked them to either write about their favorite stress-relief strategy or to tell what they do to keep from getting stressed. Music, food, exercise, naps, and prayer were key points of their coping strategies.
Our Words of the Day:
Rheumatism-- fr. Greek, rheu/rhei, flow, stream -- any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness
Placid-- fr. Latin placidus , calm, quiet -- pleasantly calm or peaceful
Avaricious-- fr. Latin, avaritia, greed -- characterized by an insatiable greed for riches; an inordinate, miserly desicre to gand and hoard wealth
Palliation-- fr. Latin palliatus, to cloaked, covered-- relieving or lessening without curing; alleviate, mitigate
I handed back the Final Drafts of the Process essays today. They did a great job on these. They are currently working on either an their Extended Definition or Classification essays. A couple of students mentioned having trouble coming up with a good topic, so we discussed this. Below are a couple of online resources that might be helpful. The pre-writing part of this paper was to be done this week, but is not to be handed in until next week. Because the essays are getting more complicated, this extra week gives students time for brainstorming, organizing, and researching. The rough drafts are to be handed in on October 27, the week following our break. Also, if a student wants to write both types of essays, I'll never say "no" to doing some extra writing!
We had a good discussion and some insightful comments about our assigned reading from A Connecticut Yankee. We came up with quite an extensive list for those ways in which we see inequality in our culture. We judge and de-value people on many levels: race, gender, income, education, appearance, athletic & intellectual abilities, etc. We also discussed Hank as a hypocrite: he judged those who promoted slavery, and yet he himself didn't give value to the knights, the king, or the church leaders.
For Grammar this week we continued to do some work with Pronouns and Antecedents. Making mistakes with number and case with pronouns is common in high school writing.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Read Ch. 37 - 41
-- 3 Study Questions and 5 Vocabulary Words
-- no grammar -- finished in class
-- Rough Draft of Extended Definition or Classification Essay
Links for this Week
Class Notes
Have a great 2 weeks!
Blessings,
Mrs. Prichard
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