We had a full day in class today. We're nearing the end of the semester, so some of our units are wrapping up. Just two more weeks and then Christmas break.
Our Quick Write prompt had three options. Nov. 29, 1832 was Louisa May Alcott's birthday; Nov. 30, 1835 was Mark Twain's birthday, and Dec. 1, 1955 was the day Rosa Parks didn't give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama. Students could write about their favorite author, the funniest author, or something they would do as a statement in support of a cause.
Our final Words of the Day:
elan -- fr. French elan -- enthusiasm, zest, spirit
lumpenproletariot -- fr. German, "rags" and fr. French "working class" -- a term adopted by Karl Marx that refers to the poor, working class.
vindaloo -- Indo-Portuguese, vinha d'alho "wine of garlic" -- a spicy, Indian curry
I gave the students a handout with all of our Words of the Day and the definitions so that they can be prepared for our Words of the Day test next week. The test will not be very hard, but they should review the words. Quizzing one another or having someone to review with might help.
They handed in their Comparison/Contrast Essays. I will get them back to them next week, and they are due the final week of class. Any other missing homework is due on that last week.
We had some presentations of the final projects for My Antonia this week. We heard a good sound track for the book, an activity bag with items relating to the book, some writing about alternate endings, some artwork, and a travel brochure. I'm really enjoying these projects and the creativity that students have put into this.
I noticed as I was correcting their worksheets about prepositions and prepositional phrases that they students could use some more work on these, so I divided the class into groups to compose sample sentences with a lot of phrases. After the sample sentences were put on the board, we worked as a class to put all of the phrases between parentheses.
Students are to bring a Christmas poem to class next week. It can be one that someone else wrote or an original one.
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Prepare for the Words of the Day Test
-- Bring a Christmas Poem to share with the class
Links for this Week:
Class Notes
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Prichard
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