Friday, February 16, 2018

Writing 2 Class Notes -- Week 5 (February 15)

Greetings!

We had a great class again!  Because our class followed Valentine's Day, for the Quick Write I had the students write the annual "Literary Love Letter."  They could write to an author, a character, a part of speech, a punctuation, etc.  Below are three links to letters written in past years.  I will let you know when I've gotten this year's letters posted on the blog.

Our Words of the Day were chosen for us by Kai Rose
kleptomania -- fr. Greek, kleptes, "theif" and mania, "madness" -- a recurrent urge to steal, sometimes uncontrollable.
affidavit -- fr. Latin, affidare, "he has stated an oath" -- a written statement confirmed by an oath
inconnu -- French, "unknown" -- a  stranger or unknown person

Students handed in the Final Drafts of their Mystery Stories.  I enjoyed reading their rough drafts, but at that time I was looking for mistakes.  Reading through their polished final drafts will be pure fun!

Our next essay assignment is either a Problem/Solution Essay or a Cause/Effect Essay.  Like the Comparison/Contrast essays, these are two part essays.  Generally, the writer should choose one one part as the focus of the essay. For example,  the problem might be stated and multiple solutions discussed.  Or a single cause is the focus and many potential effects of that cause are included.  The pre-write is due 3/1 and the rough draft is due 3/8.

For our discussion of the Short Stories, the students were divided into three groups and assigned one of the short stories.  Each group was to come up with 3 discussion questions for their stories.  They came up with good questions for us to use in our whole class discussion.

For the Grammar portion of the class, students have a packet with explanations and practice exercises that focus on Complex and Compound Sentences.

Remember -- no class next week!
Assignments for Next March 1
-- Problem/Solution or Cause/Effect Pre-Write
-- Read the stories by Dickens, Wilde, Kipling, and Munro
-- Choose 2 stories and write 3 discussion questions for these 2
-- Complex Sentences Worksheets

Links for this Week
Class Notes

Have a wonderful weekend and a good break!
Mrs. Prichard

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